Engineering Manager, Data Ingestion & Pipelines (Hybrid)

ZipRecruiter; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Exceptional benefits package

Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off

Employer-matched 401(k) plan

Job summary

ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace in the United States, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Recommendations Ecosystem. You will guide a high-impact team to modernize core data pipelines, storage, and access methods while strengthening data quality and security systems.

You will mentor 5 senior engineers, rebuild ingestion pipelines, and collaborate with data scientists and a product manager to align priorities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineering leader.
• Deep experience with modern big data frameworks (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Hive).
• Streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Beam).
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) and coding skills.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working on a B2C or B2B product.
• This role interacts with Product Managers to translate problems into engineering solutions and requires curiosity and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and unblock a senior team of engineers responsible for core job ingestion pipelines and data stores.
• Drive the rebuild of the job ingestion pipeline and refine data exposure to consuming teams.
• Prioritize initiatives to improve input data quality and handle low-structure content.
• Own improvements to fraud detection and blocking mechanisms.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Scientists, and Product Manager to balance requests and roadmap priorities.
• Ensure scalable real-time data processing and extend pipelines for personalization.

Skills

5+ years software development

Engineering leadership

Big data frameworks

Streaming technologies

CS fundamentals

Docker & Kubernetes

B2C/B2B product experience

Messy data handling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Hadoop

Hive

Kafka

Flink

Beam

Job description

ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace in the United States, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Recommendations Ecosystem. You will guide a high-impact team to modernize core data pipelines, storage, and access methods while strengthening data quality and security systems.

You will mentor 5 senior engineers, rebuild ingestion pipelines, and collaborate with data scientists and a product manager to align priorities.