Engineering Manager

DAT Freight Solutions; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&

Parental Leave

401k matching

Flexible Vacation Time

Job summary

DAT Freight & Analytics is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Carrier Services Board (CSB) to lead a team focused on ingesting and publishing carrier rate data at scale. You will drive a multi-year migration to a cloud-native Kubernetes-based platform while delivering value to customers and aligning with product roadmaps.

You will partner with Product Management to balance discovery and delivery, own sprint planning, and guide teammates through growth plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience; 2+ years in engineering management or technical lead roles.
• Experience delivering complex software products end-to-end from requirements to production.
• Strong knowledge of modern product development frameworks (continuous discovery, dual-track agile, outcome-based roadmaps).
• Hands-on leadership in migration from legacy codebases to modern architectures (monolith to microservices).
• Practical experience with Kubernetes in production environments and cloud platforms (AWS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-8 software engineers; foster ownership and craftsmanship.
• Conduct 1:1s, set clear performance expectations, and write development-focused reviews.
• Recruit, interview, and hire engineers; build a diverse, high-performing team.
• Create individualized growth plans aligning career goals with business needs.
• Drive team health, resolve conflicts, and protect focus and psychological safety.
• Own sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery forecasting.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Docker

Cloud (AWS)

Leadership

Hiring

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Argo CD

Terraform

Job description

About DAT

DAT Freight & Analytics is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company focused on freight and logistics innovation. Founded in 1978, DAT operates the largest freight marketplace in North America and maintains a large repository of throughput data. The company deploys software solutions, machine learning models, and intelligent automation tools to help brokers, carriers, and shippers price freight accurately, source capacity, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. DAT has teams across Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.DAT.com.

The Opportunity

The Engineering Manager for the Carrier Services Board (CSB) team is a critical leadership role at the heart of DAT\'s freight intelligence platform. CSB is the backbone of how carrier rate contributions flow into and power DAT\'s market analytics data that brokers, shippers, and carriers rely on every day to make confident pricing decisions.

In this role you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for the systems that ingest, process, and publish carrier-contributed rate data at scale. You will own a multi-year initiative to migrate CSB\'s legacy codebase to a modern, cloud-native architecture on Kubernetes, while continuing to ship value for customers without disruption. You will partner closely with Product Management, operating within DAT\'s Product Operating Model, to align engineering delivery with roadmap priorities and keep the team moving with purpose.

This is a role for a technically grounded leader who is as comfortable debating architectural trade-offs as they are running a sprint retrospective or writing a career growth plan for a mid-level engineer.

What You\'ll Do

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-8 software engineers across different levels, fostering ownership, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
• Performance management: Conduct regular 1:1s, set clear performance expectations, and write rigorous development-focused performance reviews.
• Talent acquisition: Recruit, interview, and hire exceptional engineers; build a diverse, high-performing team.
• Career development: Create individualized growth plans that align personal career goals with team and business needs.
• Team health: Resolve team conflicts and ambiguity proactively; protect the team\'s focus and psychological safety.

Product & Delivery

• Operate within the Product Operating Model, partnering with Product Managers on discovery, prioritization, and roadmap planning to ensure engineering is a proactive voice in product direction.
• Own sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery forecasting; hold the team accountable to commitments while managing scope responsibly.
• Translate high-level business goals into well-scoped engineering milestones, removing blockers and managing dependencies across teams.
• Drive a culture of high-quality engineering practices: code review standards, test coverage, observability, and on-call readiness.
• Report on team health, delivery velocity, and technical health metrics to Engineering leadership.

Technical Strategy & Modernization

• Lead the multi-phase migration of CSB\'s legacy codebase to a modern, cloud-native architecture deployed on Kubernetes, with a disciplined approach to risk management and zero customer-impacting regressions.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and architects to define target-state architecture, sequencing migration work alongside new feature delivery.
• Champion containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices across the team.
• Drive adoption of modern observability and deployment tooling (CI/CD, Helm, Argo, or equivalent).
• Evaluate technical trade-offs with an eye toward long-term maintainability, developer experience, and operational cost.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with peer engineering managers, platform teams, and data engineering to ensure CSB systems integrate reliably with downstream consumers and upstream data sources.
• Represent the CSB team in engineering leadership forums; contribute to org-wide engineering standards, hiring committees, and technical guilds.
• Communicate technical status, risks, and decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders including Product, Data, and Business leadership.

The Skills and Experience You\'ll Bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management or technical lead role managing direct reports.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex software products end-to-end—from requirements through production.
• Strong working knowledge of the Product Operating Model or equivalent modern product development frameworks (continuous discovery, dual-track agile, outcome-based roadmaps).
• Hands-on experience leading a migration from a legacy codebase or monolith to a modern, service-oriented or microservices architecture.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes: deploying, scaling, and operating containerized workloads in a production environment.
• Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and the tooling ecosystem (Docker, Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, or equivalents).
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS) and distributed system design patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Track record of recruiting and retaining strong engineers; skilled at providing direct, growth-oriented feedback.

Bonus Skills

• Experience in data-intensive systems—stream processing, high-throughput ingestion pipelines, or real-time analytics platforms.
• Background in freight, logistics, marketplace, or fintech domains.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, Kafka, or similar messaging infrastructure.
• Experience working with Snowflake, dbt, or modern data stack tooling.
• Exposure to ML/AI-adjacent engineering (model serving, feature pipelines, or experimentation infrastructure).
• Active participation in engineering communities—open-source contributions, writing, conference talks, or internal thought leadership.

Why DAT?

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice. We offer a hybrid work environment and a values-based culture centered on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and excellence. We have a long-standing presence in the Portland area and have earned recognition in Colorado as well.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
• Additional holidays per year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs: Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, Wellness
• Free transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $190,000.00 - $226,000.00 plus target bonus. Salary offers consider scope and responsibilities, candidate experience, education, and market factors.

DAT embraces a diverse workforce and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or other protected characteristics in accordance with applicable laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities