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Senior Engineering Manager, Data and Tooling New Brooklyn, NY or Remote (North America)

AVA Labs Inc.

Aurora (CO)

Remote

USD 225,000 - 268,000

Full time

20 days ago

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Job summary

A leading blockchain company seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to oversee the development of data infrastructure and APIs. The role involves leading a team to optimize blockchain data processing and ensure robust, high-performance applications. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership skills, a background in backend engineering, and a passion for innovative technologies in the blockchain space.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in backend or data infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong engineering leadership with high-performing teams.
  • Proficiency in Golang and API design.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team responsible for blockchain data infrastructure.
  • Drive architecture and execution of scalable data pipelines.
  • Ensure reliability and performance of key services.

Skills

Leadership
Backend Engineering
Blockchain Systems
Data Infrastructure
RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka
AWS SQS
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Snowflake

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager, Data and Tooling

Looking to join a world-class blockchain development team? Ava Labs makes it simple to deploy high-performance solutions for Web3, led by innovations on Avalanche. The company was founded by Cornell computer scientists, who partnered with Wall Street veterans and early Web3 leaders to execute a promising vision for redefining the way people build permissionless networks. Ava Labs is redefining the way people create value with Web3. Join us as we empower people to easily and freely digitize all the world’s assets on one open, programmable blockchain platform.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Lead a team of software engineers and product managers responsible for designing, building, and scaling Avalanche’s data infrastructure and developer-facing APIs. This team owns the systems that ingest, process, and expose real-time and historical blockchain data across Avalanche’s core applications, infrastructure, and partner products.

  • Drive the architecture and execution of scalable, cloud-native pipelines that index blockchain data from the Avalanche Primary Network and all subnets.
  • Oversee development of key services including the Glacier API, Metrics API, public RPC endpoints, and Webhooks, which collectively serve hundreds of millions of daily requests.
  • Ensure high performance, availability, and reliability of APIs used by the Core Wallet, Explorer, Subnet Explorer, Avacloud, and third-party clients.
  • Lead backend development efforts to make blockchain data queryable and actionable for internal and external consumers.
  • Implement and enforce best practices in data engineering, including fault-tolerant design, efficient storage schemas, observability, and CI/CD automation.
  • Manage systems for authenticated and rate-limited API access, subnet-level data isolation, and region-specific hosting.
  • Own and improve the infrastructure used to onboard and support new subnets, ensuring automated data ingestion and fast time to integration.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Core, Avacloud, Custody, and other product teams to support evolving data needs and use cases.
  • Provide technical mentorship, guide architectural decisions, and foster a high-bar engineering culture within the team.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in backend or data infrastructure engineering.
  • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
  • Deep understanding of blockchain systems, including transaction models, consensus mechanisms, and node architecture.
  • Strong experience designing and maintaining RESTful and streaming APIs with high throughput and low latency requirements.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, data pipelines, and event-driven architecture.
  • Proficiency in Golang, with a deep understanding of its concurrency model and ecosystem.
  • Hands-on experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or AWS SQS.
  • Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Aurora) and NoSQL stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
  • Familiarity with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Redshift, and data infrastructure best practices.
  • Strong operational skills, including observability, incident management, and production hardening.
  • Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration.

Salary Range:
$225,029 to $267,221

(**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. NYC metro candidates are required to be in office 2-3x/week, with exceptions.)

WHY AVA LABS?

If you've ever thought about joining an early stage Web3 company - this is it! We're a global, world-class team of experts in computer science, economics, finance, marketing, and law with offices in New York City and Miami. We're highly passionate about Web3 and redefining the way people build and use finance and decentralized applications of all kinds. The company received early-stage funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, and Polychain Capital, with angel investments from Balaji Srinivasan and Naval Ravikant. Join us and be a pioneer in a new technology that will have implications across a range of verticals such as finance, gaming, investing, collectibles, among many others.

Ava Labs is committed to diversity in the workplace and we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not hire on basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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