Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Core
Lead a team of data engineers to build and operate Dropbox's core data platform, ensuring reliability, quality, and cost-efficiency for internal decision-making.
Role type
Senior Manager, Data Engineering (Hands-on engineering leader)
Builds
Ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers; self-serve analytics substrate
Domain
Cloud data platforms (Lakehouse/Warehouse)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale batch and streaming pipeline architecture, team leadership and hiring, data modeling and semantic layer design, data quality and observability, CI/CD for data, cost optimization
Preferred skills
Self-serve platform development, AI coding tools integration, modern data governance practices
Technologies
Spark, dbt, Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery
Responsibilities
Establish data quality culture with lineage and anomaly detection; Lead engineering of self-serve analytics substrate; Own unit economics of compute and storage; Partner with Data Science and Product to define data contracts; Establish rigorous engineering practices and incident response; Lead and mentor high-talent-density team
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management scope
