Engineering Manager, Metadata

Experience managing and growing a software engineering team(ideally a customer-facing product development team); including hiring, coaching, and running a full performance and career-development cycle

Strong technical foundation with the ability to review designs and code and make sound architectural trade-offs in a distributed, cloud-based systems environment

Track record of delivering complex projects on schedule while holding the team to high standards of quality, reliability, and performance

Experience owning production services and driving operational health — incident response, on-call practices, tech-debt reduction, and meeting SLAs

Ability to plan and prioritize with product partners, maintain a realistic backlog, and drive high sprint and quarterly completion rates

Communicates clearly and effectively across the team and with adjacent teams and stakeholders; keeps people well informed

Fluent in using AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT) to support the software development lifecycle, and able to establish those practices across a team

Experience building or operating metadata, catalog, lineage, or discovery/search systems

Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services

Familiarity with the analytics engineering workflow and the dbt ecosystem

Experience supporting enterprise or single-tenant customers with strict reliability and latency requirements

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Perks and Benefits

100% employer-paid medical insurance *

Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training opportunities

Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities

Monthly cell phone stipend

Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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