Data Platform Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Infra

Circle; New York (NY); On-site; USD 195,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineering Manager in the US to lead a team of senior engineers. You will own the platform that ingests, orchestrates, and serves data for analytics, monitoring, and AI workloads, while advocating self-service design and strong access controls.

The role requires hands-on technical leadership and collaboration across data, product, security, and finance teams. You will mentor senior ICs, drive architecture with the Staff Engineer, and ensure data

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and senior IC development.
• 6+ years in data, ML, and/or platform engineering with hands-on experience.
• Deep data platform experience building and operating warehouse, orchestration, streaming, or ingestion platforms at scale.
• AI and agentic fluency with NL analytics, semantic layers, and evaluation frameworks.
• Self-service mindset, platform thinking, and strong architectural awareness.
• Technical leadership with end-to-end ownership and successful releases.
• Hands-on coding and debugging, with the ability to review designs and code.
• Clear communication across analysts, scientists, engineers, and finance partners.
• Understanding of AI model training, evaluation, and data lifecycle governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, architecture, and roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time data services.
• Manage, coach, and grow senior engineers; develop ICs into technical leaders and hire well.
• Lead AI-agent management, guardrails, and review standards with quality controls.
• Design self-service platform features enabling onboarding of sources, pipelines, dashboards, and rules.
• Ensure production platform reliability with SLAs, budgeting, and incident response.
• Collaborate with data engineering, science, analytics, product, security, and finance on reusable platform capabilities.
• Stay close to code: lead designs, review critical paths, and prototype where it accelerates progress.

Skills

People mgmt

Data platform

AI / LLM

Platform engineering

Code review

Tools

Airflow

BigQuery

Kafka

Iceberg

Python

Job description

Circle is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineering Manager in the US to lead a team of senior engineers. You will own the platform that ingests, orchestrates, and serves data for analytics, monitoring, and AI workloads, while advocating self-service design and strong access controls.

The role requires hands-on technical leadership and collaboration across data, product, security, and finance teams. You will mentor senior ICs, drive architecture with the Staff Engineer, and ensure data