Staff Engineering Manager (Data Engineering)

TL;DR

Staff Engineering Manager (Data Engineering): Drive department-wide technical improvements and engineering practices for the world's largest code-hosting platform with an accent on architecture consistency, scalability, and cross-team processes. Focus on providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, coordinating with product leads, and embedding in squads to solve complex engineering challenges.

Remote, United States

USD $140,400 - $372,300 / year

Company

World’s leading AI-powered developer platform used by 180 million developers, powering agentic software development with hirify.global Copilot.

What you will do

• Drive conversations on technical issues and engineering practices across the department, suggesting improvements.
• Ensure architectural consistency and high-quality software by establishing patterns and best practices.
• Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects meeting business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing, and code reviews to grow team members.
• Cultivate an empowering environment with ownership and belonging.
• Collaborate on engineering vision, solve problems with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and advise on key initiatives.

Requirements

• 9+ years in Software Engineering or related field (or equivalent education + experience) with production software in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• 3+ years people management experience.
• Excellent written communication skills for asynchronous, distributed global teams.

Nice to have

• Experience managing data strategy, scalable data pipelines, integrations, and data models.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Scripting languages like Bash or Python.
• Cloud environments, CNCF concepts, relational/non-relational datastores (MySQL, Cosmos DB), Azure services.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first with competitive pay, annual bonus, stock, and sales incentives where applicable.
• Generous learning and growth opportunities, excellent benefits supporting work-life balance.
• Values: Customer-obsessed, Ship to learn, Growth mindset, Own the outcome, Better together, Diverse and inclusive.
• Manager fundamentals: Model, Coach, Care. Leadership principles: Create clarity, Generate energy, Deliver success.