United States Remote (Country) Full-time

EX Squared is hiring a Data Engineering Manager (Remote - US)

About the Role

Jobgether is hiring a Data Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for building trusted, scalable, and well-governed data systems. You'll drive the modernization of data pipelines, improve quality and observability, and optimize data transformations to support product growth and strategic decision-making. Partnering with cross-functional teams, you'll ensure critical metrics, analytics, and insights are delivered reliably and efficiently.

What You'll Do

  • Lead, coach, and grow a team of data engineers, setting clear goals, feedback loops, and development plans.
  • Modernize ETL/ELT pipelines, standardize orchestration, and retire legacy systems to improve reliability and maintainability.
  • Design and maintain robust data models, ensuring performance, scalability, and incremental processing.
  • Implement data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and observability practices, including SLAs/SLOs for freshness, availability, and accuracy.
  • Establish data lineage, cataloging, governance, access controls, and compliance measures for sensitive information.
  • Optimize cost and performance for data workloads, storage, and queries while maintaining high reliability.
  • Partner with analytics, product, ML, fraud, and accounting teams to translate business needs into a clear data roadmap.
  • Track and report on team OKRs and metrics, including pipeline success rate, MTTR/MTTD, and stakeholder satisfaction.

What We're Looking For

  • 6+ years of experience in data engineering or a closely related field.
  • At least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
  • Expert-level SQL and strong proficiency in Python.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow).
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake, and transformation frameworks like dbt.
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, performance tuning, and pipeline optimization.
  • Proven experience implementing data quality, observability, and lineage processes; able to manage on-call and incident response.
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable data strategies.
  • Familiarity with security, privacy, and governance best practices in data systems.

Technical Stack

  • SQL, Python
  • ETL/ELT pipelines, Airflow
  • Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt

Benefits & Compensation

  • Compensation: $159,000–$212,000 annually + equity through stock options.
  • Employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
  • Flexible vacation and remote work arrangements.
  • Paid parental leave and team-building events.
  • Educational assistance and free gym membership.
  • Casual dress code and a collaborative, mission-driven work environment.

Work Mode

This is a remote position open to candidates based in the United States.

Jobgether is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
SQLPythonETL/ELTAirflowRedshiftBigQuerySnowflakedbtData WarehousingTeam LeadershipData ArchitectureAWSGCPData ModelingCI/CD
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Posted 7 months ago