Senior Manager, Data Engineering @Dropbox

Overview

The role involves leading the team responsible for Dropbox’s data foundations, essential for business operations. The Senior Manager, Data Engineering will oversee a team of data engineers working on data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce a rigorous data quality culture including lineage, monitoring, and anomaly detection.
• Lead the engineering of the self-serve analytics platform to enhance partner-team autonomy.
• Manage the unit economics of the data platform, aiming for efficient compute and storage without sacrificing reliability.
• Partner with Data Science, Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Product to define data standards and contracts.
• Establish strong engineering practices, including code reviews, testing, CI/CD for data, and incident response.
• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, promoting a culture of ownership and continuous learning.

Requirements

• 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams.
• Proven experience building large-scale data pipelines using tools like Spark, dbt, and Airflow.
• Demonstrated ownership of data SLAs, observability, and incident response.
• Strong data modeling skills and ability to create semantic layers and data contracts.
• Excellent communication skills for alignment with various partners.

Benefits

Compensation for this role depends on the location in the US zoning system, ranging from $180,200 to $274,300 USD.

Location

Remote - United States: Select locations.

How to Apply

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