Engineering Manager, Data Streaming

About the role

This position leads the Data Streaming team, a group of platform and reliability engineers focused on the development and maintenance of a managed data streaming platform. You will manage the product lifecycle of this infrastructure, ensuring internal teams can deploy streaming features without managing underlying systems. In this role, you own the end to end delivery of streaming capabilities, acting as the primary interface between the platform and the broader engineering organization. You are responsible for translating operational needs into a coherent product vision that scales reliably across the company. The position requires you to balance strategic architectural planning with hands on technical guidance. You will foster a culture of automation and self service to reduce friction for developers consuming streaming services. Ultimately, this role ensures that data streaming becomes a core business enabler rather than a bottleneck.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Manage, mentor, and expand a team of platform and reliability engineers to deliver high quality streaming solutions.
• Treat the streaming platform as a product by defining capabilities based on internal user needs and promoting self service adoption across teams.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to gather requirements, prioritize initiatives, and align roadmaps with Data Platforms goals.
• Provide architectural guidance on system design, scalability, and the Kafka stack to ensure robust and future proof implementations.
• Oversee automation, observability, infrastructure as code, and data governance standards to maintain consistency and compliance.
• Partner with SRE leadership to define SLIs and SLOs and maintain production health through measurable service targets.
• Reduce manual operational labor by implementing automated policies and defaults that streamline platform operations.
• Direct incident response and conduct post mortems to improve platform stability and team learning from production events.
• Evaluate emerging streaming technologies and frameworks to identify opportunities for platform enhancement or migration.
• Facilitate cross functional workshops to ensure alignment between engineering, product, and infrastructure stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain documentation for platform interfaces, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Monitor platform usage metrics to drive decisions on feature prioritization and resource allocation.
• Support the onboarding of new engineering teams to the streaming platform through training and enablement initiatives.
• Continuously refine the developer experience by removing barriers and improving tooling around streaming workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or infrastructure, including team management and mentorship of technical staff.
• Proven track record of delivering infrastructure services that provide business value and improve engineering productivity.
• Technical expertise in distributed, event driven systems including Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Apache Flink.
• Hands on experience scaling platforms using cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure in production environments.
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code tools and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment and configuration.
• Ability to build strong relationships across engineering teams, leadership, and SREs to achieve shared operational goals.
• Commitment to reliability and improving developer experience through measurable improvements and feedback loops.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a hybrid work model with flexibility and strong communication skills.
• Willingness to engage with both technical and non technical stakeholders to clarify requirements and constraints.
• Adherence to company policies and professional standards in all interactions and deliverables.

Skills & tools

• Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Apache Flink
• AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Terraform
• Infrastructure as code
• CI/CD pipelines
• Observability and monitoring tools

Practical notes

• Salary range: $160,162 to $282,952 per year.
• On Target Earnings (OTE): $180,000 to $318,000 per year.
• Compensation includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs).
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, employee stock purchase plans, fertility benefits, and paid parental leave.
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