Senior Manager, Data Engineering
DropboxCloud Storage company
Remote$180,200 - $274,300 USDManager
Y Combinator
Sequoia Capital
Accel
Index Ventures
Greylock Partners
Benchmark Capital
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead the core data platform team at Dropbox.
- •Lead the team responsible for the reliability, quality, cost, and velocity of Dropbox's core data platform.
- •This is a hands-on engineering leader who owns the pipelines and data products that Product, GTM, Finance, and the CTO organization depend on to make decisions.
- •Key Responsibilities Establish and enforce a rigorous data quality culture: lineage, freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, and outcome-oriented, gaming-resistant quality metrics.
- •Lead the engineering of the self-serve analytics substrate, reducing bespoke request volume and increasing partner-team autonomy.
- •Own the unit economics of the data platform
- •compute and storage efficiency
- •and drive measurable improvements without sacrificing reliability.
- •Partner deeply with Data Science, BIE, Analytics, Product, Data Platform, and the CTO org to define the semantic layer, modeling standards, and data contracts.
- •Lead, mentor, and grow a high-talent-density team of data engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
- •Requirements 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience with increasing scope, ideally in high-scale environments. 3+ years of experience directly managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team design.
- •Deep technical expertise in building and operating large-scale batch and streaming pipelines (e.g., Spark, dbt, Airflow) on a modern lakehouse or warehouse stack (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery).
- •Demonstrated ownership of data SLAs, observability, lineage, and incident response for business-critical pipelines.
- •Strong data modeling fundamentals and the ability to design a semantic layer and data contracts that serve many downstream consumers.
Required skills
SparkdbtAirflowDatabricksSnowflakeBigQuerySQLEngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
PythonLLMs
Tech stack
PythonSparkdbtAirflowDatabricksSnowflakeBigQuerySQL