Engineering Manager - Pipelines (Remote, Portugal)

Jobgether; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Coworking allowance

Equity ownership

Tech allowance

Health coverage

Annual off-sites

Education allowance

Open-source environment

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager - Pipelines based in Portugal to lead a globally distributed team building a managed data pipeline and CDC product. You will oversee data replication systems, reliability, and team development in a remote-first environment, shaping the roadmap, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration.

You will guide senior engineers, partner with Talent Acquisition, and drive performance, delivery, and architectural standards across the data platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience leading data pipelines, change data capture (CDC), replication or streaming systems.
• Strong understanding of data systems: delivery guarantees, event ordering, idempotency, schema evolution, backfill.
• In-depth PostgreSQL replication knowledge: logical replication, WAL, replication slots.
• Familiarity with analytical destinations (BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse) and lakehouse formats (Apache Iceberg).
• Experience leading teams through production incidents involving customer data.
• Experience delivering developer-facing data products to external customers.
• Experience with globally distributed teams and asynchronous work.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Pipelines engineering team, ensuring reliable data replication and performance.
• Own the team’s roadmap, priorities, and delivery processes; manage Slack communications and stakeholder updates.
• Guide hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development for direct reports.
• Coordinate incident management and blameless post-incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Foster a culture of operational ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Engineering Manager - Pipelines based in Portugal to lead a globally distributed team building a managed data pipeline and CDC product. You will oversee data replication systems, reliability, and team development in a remote-first environment, shaping the roadmap, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration.

You will guide senior engineers, partner with Talent Acquisition, and drive performance, delivery, and architectural standards across the data platform.