Manager, Engineering - Data Governance

$230,000 - $250,000/Yr

Starburst - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

251-500 employees

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About the position

The Engineering Manager at Starburst will lead and scale a growing engineering team responsible for developing a SaaS-based open data lakehouse platform. This role focuses on building a motivated team, driving the vision for data governance, and ensuring operational excellence while fostering a culture of growth and fun within the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers.
• Provide support and guidance to enable the team to self-organize and achieve sustained high velocity and predictability.
• Drive and deliver the vision for data governance covering authentication, authorization, and compliance aspects of the platform.
• Help employees grow through career development, coaching, and mentoring.
• Define personal development plans, set goals, perform evaluations, and collaborate with employees on their objectives.
• Ensure employees are enjoying their work.
• Own, operate, and maintain your team's services.
• Employ Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to customers.
• Enhance and maintain a rotating on-call incident escalation and response process.
• Represent your team's operational maturity to Starburst's executives and product teams.
• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads to ensure clear direction and priorities.
• Act as an ambassador for Starburst, recruiting and motivating top talent.

Requirements

• Track record of leading distributed systems engineering and operations teams in software companies.
• Demonstrated expertise in building and running a platform at scale (billions of events/week) either on-premise or in public cloud.
• Specific expertise in highly available data architectures across multiple availability zones.
• Prior experience in building enterprise security features.
• Passion for engineering hygiene and operational excellence.
• Familiarity with agile processes, continuous integration, and test automation.
• Strategic thinking related to scale and automation.
• Ability to distill complex situations into actionable plans.
• Customer-centric approach to service development.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud-based solutions and architectures.
• Knowledge of data lake and analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory requirements in data governance.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and attractive stock grants.
• Remote-friendly work options.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Comprehensive benefits offering.