Data Platform Engineering Manager: ML & Data Infra Lead

Polluxa, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager in San Francisco to lead a team spanning data storage, feature store/ML platform, and underwriting pipelines.

You will hire, mentor, and develop engineers while driving architecture and technical strategy for critical cloud-based data infrastructure. You will stay hands-on by reviewing designs, guiding implementation, and owning reliability and on-call processes, ensuring strong cross-functional collaboration with DS, product,

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience, including leadership.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership or management role.
• Strong background in data infrastructure and ML platforms.
• Experience with data lakehouse stacks and cloud infra.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of 5-6 engineers across data storage, feature store, and underwriting platforms.
• Set and drive execution and technical strategy for warehouse, feature store/ML lifecycle, and underwriting pipelines.
• Review designs and code; unblock hard problems; drive architecture on high-priority initiatives.
• Own reliability and on-call; build incident response, SLAs, and recoverability practices.
• Partner with underwriting data science and product engineering teams.
• Represent roadmap and tradeoffs to cross-functional stakeholders; prioritize data infra, ML platform, and underwriting needs.

Skills

Leadership

Code review

Mentorship

Hiring

Team building

Technical strategy

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Databricks

Airflow

dbt

Spark/PySpark

AWS

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager in San Francisco to lead a team spanning data storage, feature store/ML platform, and underwriting pipelines.

You will hire, mentor, and develop engineers while driving architecture and technical strategy for critical cloud-based data infrastructure. You will stay hands-on by reviewing designs, guiding implementation, and owning reliability and on-call processes, ensuring strong cross-functional collaboration with DS, product,