Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Location: On-site in San Francisco, New York, or London

Company

hirify.global is a research lab building open-weight AI models and the data infrastructure that supports their research, training, and production environments.

What you will do

• Build, mentor, and grow a team of approximately 10 data platform engineers.
• Set the technical direction for batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, scalable compute, and storage.
• Develop reproducible pipelines with versioning, backfills, and isolated execution environments.
• Partner with research, training, and production teams to support high-velocity experimentation on a unified data layer.
• Establish data quality, lineage, governance, cost, and performance controls.
• Stay hands-on through design reviews, architecture decisions, and critical code contributions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience with a strong data engineering foundation.
• Experience shipping and owning production-grade pipelines processing tens of terabytes to petabytes daily.
• Previous staff- or principal-level individual contributor experience before moving into engineering leadership.
• Experience managing and growing a team of approximately 5–10 engineers, or clear readiness to build one quickly.
• Deep expertise in ingestion and orchestration, storage and processing engines, or data quality, lineage, and reproducibility systems, with working breadth across the other areas.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across research and infrastructure teams in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Experience building new data systems from zero rather than maintaining legacy platforms.
• Experience with Spark, Flink, Beam, Airflow, Dagster, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta Lake, BigQuery, Snowflake, Great Expectations, and SLA-driven pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Salary and equity are structured to recognize and retain talent globally.
• Stock options for employees.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus an annual wellness allowance.
• Daily lunch and dinner in the office.
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
• Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 vacation days in the U.K.; visa sponsorship and long-term immigration support are available where applicable.