Data Platform Engineering Manager – AI-Driven, Self-Service

Circle; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 195,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle, a leading internet finance platform, seeks a DP Engineering Manager to lead senior data platform engineers across ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services. Drive architecture, roadmap, and governance with a focus on correctness and self-service for AI agents.

You will partner with Data Eng, Data Science, Analytics, Product Eng, Security, and Finance to deliver scalable data capabilities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and senior IC development.
• 6+ years in data, ML, and/or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience building and operating warehouse, orchestration, streaming, or ingestion platforms at scale (e.g., BigQuery, Airflow, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Iceberg).
• Defined data SLOs, validation, and architecture changes when data was wrong or untrusted.
• Built or led AI/agentic data systems with secure access controls.
• Designed self-service platforms with adoption-driven architecture.
• Owned high-impact platform projects end-to-end with release success.
• Wrote clear design docs and explained complex systems to analysts, scientists, engineers, and finance partners.
• Basic AI fundamentals: training, evaluation, data versioning, and handling drift.

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, guardrails, and output quality controls.
• Treat datasets as AI infrastructure with provenance, labeling workflows, and access controls.
• Enable self-service across teams for sources, pipelines, dashboards, and monitoring rules.
• Operate a reliable production platform with SLAs, cost attribution, and governance.
• Collaborate with Data Eng, Data Science, Analytics, Product Eng, Security, TechOps, and Finance.

Skills

People management

Data platform experience

Hands-on coding

Clear communicator

AI/agentic fluency

Platform thinking

Technical leadership

Code review & debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Iceberg

Job description

Circle, a leading internet finance platform, seeks a DP Engineering Manager to lead senior data platform engineers across ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services. Drive architecture, roadmap, and governance with a focus on correctness and self-service for AI agents.

You will partner with Data Eng, Data Science, Analytics, Product Eng, Security, and Finance to deliver scalable data capabilities.