Senior Manager System Engineering
Core
Lead the reliability, cost efficiency, and agentic operation of GoDaddy's Data & AI ecosystem, transitioning platform operations from expert-dependent support to system-based, agent-assisted self-improving operations.
Role type
Senior Manager, Systems Engineering (Data & AI Operations)
Builds
GoDaddy's analytical and data intelligence platforms (Redshift, QuickSight, FeedDB, Protegrity, Alation) and the Forge Ops OS agent-based operating model.
Domain
Cloud Data Infrastructure & AI Operations
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
24/7 production operations leadership, AWS architecture/platform expertise, systems and software architecture fluency, data platform operations at scale, technical team leadership with operational rigor
Preferred skills
AI/agentic operations experience, graph databases or lineage/observability architectures, Databricks or analytical compute platforms, data protection platforms, incident management systems
Technologies
Redshift, QuickSight, FeedDB, Protegrity, Alation, AWS (EMR/Airflow, Lambda, EKS, S3, IAM/RBAC, CDK/CloudFormation), Databricks, Neptune, ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty
Responsibilities
Own and operate GoDaddy's analytical and data intelligence platforms as the authoritative L1/L2 platform owner; Lead 24/7 incident management and production operations across 10+ Data & AI platforms; Architect and advance the Forge Ops OS agent-based operating model; Drive data platform cost efficiency through unit economics; Manage operational planning and executive reporting
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leadership
