Engineering Manager II, Data Platform (Apache Flink)

Location: Onsite at hirify.global Vietnam office in Ho Chi Minh City

Company

hirify.global is a Southeast Asian superapp providing transportation, food delivery, financial, and other digital services.

What you will do

• Lead a Vietnam-based team of Flink platform engineers, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own quarterly planning, objectives, prioritization, and delivery of the Flink platform roadmap.
• Guide technical design for self-service Flink capabilities, deployment guardrails, observability, automation, and reusable platform modules.
• Drive operational excellence through on-call readiness, incident response, post-incident learning, service level objectives, capacity planning, and reliability improvements.
• Partner with Kafka, data lake, metrics, governance, SRE, security, and product engineering teams across hirify.global.
• Translate ambiguous platform needs into practical execution plans for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers or leading engineering teams.
• Experience building, operating, or managing distributed systems, data platforms, stream processing platforms, or high-scale backend infrastructure in production.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka, or comparable large-scale data processing technologies.
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering, production operations, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and security practices.
• Ability to set roadmaps, prioritize under ambiguity, lead execution, and deliver measurable outcomes through a team.
• Strong coaching, hiring, stakeholder management, and technical communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Apache Flink internals, high availability, checkpointing, state management, job upgrades, shadow testing, and safe deployment patterns.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitLab CI, Go, Java, Scala, or infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Experience building platform abstractions, SDKs, deployment tooling, control planes, self-service workflows, or managed NoOps services.
• Experience with data lake or warehouse technologies such as Spark, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta, Hudi, Trino, or Presto.
• Exposure to data governance, data quality, stream contracts, platform cost management, or multi-tenant data infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Term life insurance and comprehensive medical insurance.
• Flexible benefits package through hirify.globalFlex.
• Parental leave, birthday leave, and volunteering leave.
• Confidential employee assistance programme.
• FlexWork arrangements, including differentiated working hours.
• Inclusive and equitable workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices.