Data Ingestion Engineering Manager: Distributed Systems Lead

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineering leader in New York to guide a 6+ person team building a petabyte-scale data ingestion platform. You will tackle distributed-systems challenges, drive the roadmap and OKRs, and ensure multi-region operational excellence across cloud environments.

You will partner with product, customer success, and support to deliver customer-focused outcomes, maintain high engineering standards, and occasionally travel to align with teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or US Permanent Resident.
• Strong background architecting, designing, and developing distributed-systems products across the development lifecycle.
• Experience preferably in a large-scale cloud environment.
• 2+ years of experience managing teams of 6+ individual contributors.
• Experience delivering multiple major product milestones.
• Demonstrated track record of building strong engineering teams.
• Operational excellence operating services spanning many components and geographical regions.
• History of positive impact on customer experience and business results.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making and drive business outcomes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in large-scale distributed-system architecture, scalability, availability, and optimization is a bonus.
• Experience with stream processing, Kafka, or similar technologies is a bonus.
• Must periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint checks for government customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead a group of 6+ engineers building a petabyte-scale data ingestion platform.
• Solve distributed-systems challenges involving high availability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Own the team's roadmap and quarterly OKRs.
• Instill operational excellence for globally available, multi-region production systems.
• Define and uphold team SLOs.
• Engage regularly with product management, customer success, and support stakeholders.
• Lead with customer and product focus.
• Maintain a high bar for engineering talent and accountability.
• Collaborate with teams across CrowdStrike's data platforms and product organizations.
• Travel a few times every year to meet teams and peers.

Skills

Distributed-Systems Architecture

Team Management

Operational Excellence

AI Technologies Utilization

Cloud Environment Experience

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineering leader in New York to guide a 6+ person team building a petabyte-scale data ingestion platform. You will tackle distributed-systems challenges, drive the roadmap and OKRs, and ensure multi-region operational excellence across cloud environments.

You will partner with product, customer success, and support to deliver customer-focused outcomes, maintain high engineering standards, and occasionally travel to align with teams and stakeholders.