Engineering Manager, Data Platform & AI Infra - Remote

Circle; United States; Remote; USD 195,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is seeking an experienced DP Engineering Manager to lead a team of senior data platform engineers. You will own the roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services, ensuring correctness, auditability, and access controls.

This hands-on role requires coaching engineers, guiding architecture, and partnering with cross-functional teams including Data Science, Analytics, and Security.

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing software engineers, including hiring and coaching.
• Deep data platform experience at scale (warehouse, ingestion, orchestration).
• Experience with AI-enabled data systems and agent frameworks.
• Designing self-service platforms and governance controls.

Responsibilities

• Own vision, architecture, and roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time data services.
• Manage, coach, and grow senior engineers, developing ICs into leaders.
• Lead AI-agent management, guardrails, and output quality.
• Define data quality through SLOs, contracts, lineage, and access controls.
• Ensure platform is self-service for onboarding sources, pipelines, dashboards, and rules.

Skills

Experienced manager

Data platform experience

AI & agentic fluency

Self-service platform thinking

Hands-on

Platform architecture

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow

Pub/Sub

Kafka

Iceberg

Python

Job description

Circle is seeking an experienced DP Engineering Manager to lead a team of senior data platform engineers. You will own the roadmap for ingestion, orchestration, warehouse, BI, and real-time services, ensuring correctness, auditability, and access controls.

This hands-on role requires coaching engineers, guiding architecture, and partnering with cross-functional teams including Data Science, Analytics, and Security.