Data Platform Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Self-Service

Circle; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets and programmable blockchain. We seek an DP Engineering Manager to lead a senior data platform team responsible for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services.

You will drive architecture, governance, and AI-enabled workflows while partnering with data engineering, data science, analytics, and product teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and coaching.
• Deep data platform experience building/operating warehouse, orchestration, streaming, or ingestion platforms at scale.
• AI and agentic data systems experience or leadership in relevant projects.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, architecture, and roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time data services.
• Manage, coach, and grow senior engineers; develop senior ICs into technical leaders.
• Lead AI-agent management and guardrails with data access controls and audit trails.
• Oversee data contracts, lineage, and governance with data quality checks and SLOs.
• Prototype and review designs; align with cross-functional partners (Data Eng, Data Science, Finance).

Skills

People management

Data platform

AI/agentic systems

Platform engineering

Leadership

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Iceberg

Job description

Circle is building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets and programmable blockchain. We seek an DP Engineering Manager to lead a senior data platform team responsible for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services.

You will drive architecture, governance, and AI-enabled workflows while partnering with data engineering, data science, analytics, and product teams.