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Sr. Manager, Quality Engineering

Santa Clara, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-16 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead the quality strategy for a massive-scale data engineering team processing 1PB of data daily, focusing on modern testing, automation, and system reliability.

Role type

Senior Manager, Quality Engineering (Data Engineering)

Builds

Shared CI/CD gates, contract-testing infrastructure, chaos templates, and AI-augmented testing frameworks.

Domain

Cloud Security, Big Data, Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Team leadership (10+ people), modern testing strategies, automation frameworks, contract/consumer-driven testing, chaos engineering, data systems (Postgres, Clickhouse, Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Kinesis, Kafka), cloud-native architectures, AI-driven tooling evaluation.

Preferred skills

Prior hands-on experience as a Senior IC.

Technologies

Postgres, Clickhouse, Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Kinesis, Kafka

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor 10+ engineers; define quality strategy using DORA metrics; guide teams in designing automation and resilience strategies; oversee rollout of AI-augmented testing; establish standards for data integrity and system reliability; partner with Engineering, Product, and Program Management; support production deployments and lead root-cause analysis.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on leadership

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