Director of Engineering, Data Platform
Core
Lead engineering teams building a petabyte-scale data platform handling 50B+ daily events for real-time ingestion, batch processing, and analytics.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Data Platform)
Builds
Real-time data ingestion pipelines, analytics batch jobs, query engines, and observability standards on GCP.
Domain
SaaS, Data Infrastructure, Cloud Computing
Required skills
Engineering management (managing managers), Large-scale distributed systems, Real-time data ingestion, Batch processing, Cost optimization (FinOps), Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Go programming, Observability (OpenTelemetry)
Preferred skills
Firestore, High-cardinality telemetry data, Multi-tenant SaaS, Open-source contributions
Technologies
Go, GKE, Cloud Pub/Sub, Firestore, Redis, memcache, OpenTelemetry, SQL, NoSQL, Columnar databases, Kafka, SQS
Responsibilities
Set technical direction and roadmap for data platform teams, Drive architectural decisions for storage/compute, Own instrumentation standards, Manage platform cost profile, Partner with SRE on reliability and SLOs, Serve as technical authority for customers, Hire and develop engineering leaders
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leadership
