Senior Manager, Data Engineering

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About the role

  • Senior Manager leading Dropbox’s data engineering team and core data platform. Improving pipeline reliability, quality, efficiency, and self-serve analytics for company-wide decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of data engineers building and operating ingestion, transformation, orchestration, serving, and self-serve analytics layers
  • Establish data quality practices covering lineage, freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality metrics
  • Lead the self-serve analytics platform to reduce bespoke requests and increase partner-team autonomy
  • Own data-platform compute and storage efficiency while improving reliability
  • Partner with Data Science, BIE, Analytics, Product, Data Platform, and the CTO organization on semantic layers, modeling standards, and data contracts
  • Establish engineering practices including code review, testing, CI/CD for data, incident response, and postmortems
  • Champion measured use of AI coding tools to improve engineering productivity
  • Mentor and develop data engineers while fostering ownership, technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning

Requirements

  • 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience, ideally in high-scale environments
  • 3+ years directly managing and growing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team design
  • Proven experience building and operating large-scale batch and streaming pipelines
  • Experience with Spark, dbt, and Airflow/orchestration
  • Experience with modern lakehouse or warehouse platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery
  • Ownership of data SLAs, observability, lineage, and incident response for business-critical pipelines
  • Strong data modeling fundamentals
  • Ability to design semantic layers and data contracts for downstream consumers
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-alignment skills across engineering, data science, analytics, and business partners

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$209,100 - CA$282,900 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AirflowBigQuerySpark

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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