Data Platform Engineering Manager, AI‑Driven & Self‑Service

Circle; Texas; On-site; USD 195,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle’s Data Platform team is seeking an engineering manager to lead a senior data platform engineers crew and shape the next chapter of our analytics, monitoring, and data‑driven AI workloads. You’ll own architecture, guardrails for AI agents, and build self‑service capabilities with robust access controls and audit trails.

The role combines hands‑on leadership with strategic roadmapping, cross‑functional collaboration, and a focus on data quality, governance, and scalable platform delivery

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching.
• Hands-on experience building and operating data warehouse, orchestration, streaming at scale.
• Defined data SLOs and ensured data correctness and trust.
• Experience with AI-enabled data systems and governance.
• Led self-service platform adoption and architectural decisions.
• Proven technical leadership with end-to-end project ownership.
• Strong design critique, debugging, and production judgment.
• Clear written and verbal communication with analysts, scientists, and finance.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, architecture, and roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time data services.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, shaping ICs into technical leaders.
• Lead AI-agent management, guardrails, and review standards.
• Develop datasets with provenance, labeling workflows, and access controls.
• Enable self-service onboarding for sources, pipelines, dashboards, and monitoring rules.
• Ensure platform reliability with SLAs, cost attribution, and change management.

Skills

Data platform leadership

People management

Data infrastructure

AI/agentic fluency

Self-service platform thinking

Technical leadership

Hands-on debugging

Clear communication

AI governance

Cloud data tooling

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Iceberg

LangGraph

MCP

Job description

Circle’s Data Platform team is seeking an engineering manager to lead a senior data platform engineers crew and shape the next chapter of our analytics, monitoring, and data‑driven AI workloads. You’ll own architecture, guardrails for AI agents, and build self‑service capabilities with robust access controls and audit trails.

The role combines hands‑on leadership with strategic roadmapping, cross‑functional collaboration, and a focus on data quality, governance, and scalable platform delivery