Senior Manager, Data Engineering
Skills
About the role
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role managing Dropbox's data foundations team, covering ingestion, transformation, orchestration and self-serve analytics. It suits a technically deep, product-minded engineering leader based in Canada who wants to own data quality and platform reliability at scale. The team's work supports decisions made by Product, GTM, Finance and the CTO organization.
What you’ll do
- Establish and enforce a data quality culture including lineage, freshness monitoring and anomaly detection
- Lead engineering of the self-serve analytics substrate to reduce bespoke request volume
- Own unit economics of the data platform, driving compute and storage efficiency
- Partner with Data Science, BI Engineering, Analytics and Product to define the semantic layer and data contracts
- Establish rigorous engineering practices including code review, testing, CI/CD, incident response and postmortems
- Lead, mentor and grow a team of data engineers
What they’re looking for
- 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience with increasing scope
- 3+ years directly managing and growing engineering teams
- Track record building and operating large-scale batch and streaming pipelines on a modern lakehouse or warehouse stack
- Demonstrated ownership of data SLAs, observability, lineage and incident response
- Strong data modeling fundamentals and ability to design a semantic layer and data contracts
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Nice to have
- Track record building self-serve data or analytics platforms
- Experience integrating AI coding tools and LLM-based tooling into engineering workflow
- Demonstrated success improving compute/storage unit economics
- Familiarity with modern data governance, privacy and access-control practices
- Experience operating in a pod or embedded model serving multiple business partners
What’s on offer
- Canada pay range of C$209,100 to C$282,900
Questions about this role
How much does this role pay?
The Canada pay range is C$209,100 to C$282,900 per year.
How many years of experience are required?
8+ years of data engineering experience and 3+ years of team management experience.
Is this role remote?
The posting does not state a specific work mode beyond listing Canada as the location.
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