About the Role
Manage and mentor a team of software engineers responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining distributed data systems. Drive technical direction, ensure system reliability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers building scalable data storage and retrieval systems
- Guide development efforts on Elasticsearch and Bigtable platforms
- Ensure system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define technical roadmaps
- Mentor engineers in best practices for distributed systems
- Oversee incident response and resolution for data infrastructure
- Drive adoption of automation and operational excellence
- Participate in architectural design and code reviews
- Manage sprint planning and delivery cycles
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
- Evaluate new technologies for data platform enhancements
- Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards
- Coordinate with operations teams on deployment and monitoring
- Optimize query performance and data indexing strategies
- Support capacity planning and system scalability efforts
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline
- Experience leading teams working on observability or logging platforms
- Background in SaaS or enterprise software environments
- Prior work with time-series data or analytics pipelines
- Knowledge of Apache Beam or Dataflow
- Exposure to Terraform or infrastructure-as-code tools
- Contributions to open-source data projects
- Understanding of data privacy regulations
- Experience in agile or lean development methodologies
- Leadership in incident management and postmortem processes
Compensation
Competitive salary based on experience and location
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with flexible remote options
Team
Part of the data platforms engineering group focused on search and storage systems
Why This Role Matters
- The systems you lead will power critical search and data retrieval functions across the company’s product suite.
- Your work ensures fast, reliable access to large volumes of structured and unstructured data for internal and external users.
What You’ll Build
- Scalable pipelines for ingesting and indexing data into Elasticsearch.
- Efficient storage solutions using Bigtable for high-throughput applications.
- Monitoring and alerting frameworks to maintain system health.
This position may require sponsorship for employment visa status
