Senior Data Platform Lead — Self-Serve Analytics & Quality

Dropbox, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Dropbox, Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead the team responsible for the reliability, quality, cost, and velocity of Dropbox's core data platform.

This is a hands-on engineering leader who owns the pipelines and data products that Product, GTM, Finance, and the CTO organization depend on to make decisions. You will lead and grow a team of data engineers building and operating ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers, as well as the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering or backend/data infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years of direct management and growth of engineering teams.
• Proven track record building and operating large-scale batch and streaming pipelines (Spark, dbt, Airflow).
• Ownership of data SLAs, observability, lineage, and incident response.
• Strong data modeling and ability to design a semantic layer and data contracts.
• Excellent communication to align engineering, data science, analytics and business partners.

Responsibilities

• Data Quality & Observability: establish rigorous data quality culture with lineage, freshness, anomaly detection, and quality metrics.
• Self-Serve Platform: lead engineering of the self-serve analytics substrate to reduce bespoke requests.
• Cost & Efficiency: own unit economics of the data platform and drive improvements without sacrificing reliability.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, Product, Data Platform, and CTO to define semantic layer and data contracts.
• Engineering Culture: enforce code review, testing, CI/CD for data, incident response, postmortems, and AI tooling to boost productivity.
• Team Leadership: mentor and grow a high-talent-density team with ownership and psychological safety.

Skills

Team leadership

Data engineering

Stakeholder management

Data modeling

Tools

Spark

dbt

Airflow

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

Dropbox, Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead the team responsible for the reliability, quality, cost, and velocity of Dropbox's core data platform.

This is a hands-on engineering leader who owns the pipelines and data products that Product, GTM, Finance, and the CTO organization depend on to make decisions. You will lead and grow a team of data engineers building and operating ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers, as well as the