Engineering Manager, Data Platform

## Responsibilities - Own the strategy and roadmap for Chime’s Data Storage Platform, including Snowflake, data lake and online data stores for low-latency access. - Design and evolve scalable, high-performance storage architecture that balance reliability, cost, and ease of use for both analytical and in-product workloads. - Ensure performant and secure data access by defining and enforcing access patterns, partitioning and clustering strategies, indexing, and caching and serving layers for key datasets and metrics. - Collaborate across Data Platform and partner teams to define clear data contracts, schemas, and SLAs between producers, storage, and consumers. - Build tooling and automation for governance and compliance across sinks (e.g., RBAC, PII protection, tokenization, lineage, and auditability) in partnership with Security, Risk, and Compliance. - Manage and grow a team of engineers, setting clear expectations, providing coaching and feedback, and raising the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence. - Establish strong operational practices, including on-call, incident management, postmortems, and SLOs for the storage and serving layers your team owns. - Stay ahead of industry trends in data storage, lakehouse architectures, and AI/ML-ready data systems, and thoughtfully introduce technologies that improve our platform’s capabilities. ## Requirements - Have 8+ years of experience in high-scale, high-reliability software development, with a focus on platforms, infrastructure, and data storage systems. - Have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers. - Have a track record of scaling products, platforms, and operations to support rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality. ## Nice to Have - Experience with cloud-native data platforms and storage solutions. - Familiarity with AI/ML workflows and data pipelines. - Strong leadership and communication skills. ## Benefits - Base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $199,000 and up to $275,000. - Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. - The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.