Remote Data Platform Engineering Lead

Remote Worker LTD.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Global teams

Flexible work

Job summary

Booksy, a rapidly growing scale-up, seeks an Associate Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a small team of 2-3 platform engineers while remaining hands-on. You’ll split time between people leadership, agile delivery, and engineering, designing reliable Terraform/Terragrunt modules on GCP and championing data security.

You will empower downstream data teams to build with confidence through standardized, self-service tools and solid governance, while aligning with OKRs and modern open-source

Qualifications

• Dual Track Experience: 5+ years of experience in data platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with initial experience leading, mentoring, or managing tech teams.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep, practical experience using Terraform/Terragrunt to architect and manage infrastructure, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.
• Advanced Platform Skillset: Strong familiarity with GCP data services (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, GKE, IAM) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Platform-as-a-Product Mindset: A strong focus on customer enablement, platform reliability, system governance, and security.
• English Fluency: At a minimum, we require professional English language skills (B2 level or higher). Why? English is our company language and is used for any business-wide communications, so we need you to be able to communicate smoothly to feel like an integrated part of Booksy.

Responsibilities

• Modern Open-Source Tools: An open-source-first mindset when researching, evaluating, or building internal platform tools.
• Next-Gen Architectures: Exposure to PySpark and open table formats (Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake).
• AI Integration: Experience or strong interest in applying AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude) and monitoring LLM-driven pipelines.

Skills

Data platform

Terraform/Terragrunt

GCP

CI/CD

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Leadership

English

Tools

Open-source tools

Job description

Booksy, a rapidly growing scale-up, seeks an Associate Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a small team of 2-3 platform engineers while remaining hands-on. You’ll split time between people leadership, agile delivery, and engineering, designing reliable Terraform/Terragrunt modules on GCP and championing data security.

You will empower downstream data teams to build with confidence through standardized, self-service tools and solid governance, while aligning with OKRs and modern open-source