Senior Manager, Data Platform

Careers at Drata; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Data Platform team. This pivotal role involves building scalable infrastructure, mentoring skilled engineers, and ensuring the reliability of data pipelines. As part of a hypergrowth B2B SaaS company, you will drive architecture decisions and collaborate closely with analytics teams to deliver impactful solutions. If you are passionate about technical execution and solving complex challenges in the modern data stack, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will help shape the future of compliance solutions.

Benefits

90-100% paid healthcare premiums

Flexible Time Off

16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave

$500 for professional development

$250 for personal development

$1,000 for home office expenses

100% paid short and long term disability

401K plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Data/Software Engineering with data pipelines.
• 3+ years managing engineering teams in platform and data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on data platforms.
• Design production-grade infrastructure for data transformation.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Pipelines

Distributed Systems

Analytics Infrastructure

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

Decodable (Flink)

Cube.dev

Job description

(View all jobs) Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform (Remote) United States

Drata is looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team. This team is the backbone of Drata's mission to help build trust across the internet by delivering scalable, automated, and intelligent compliance solutions. As a hypergrowth B2B SaaS company, data accuracy and trust are core to our product, and this role is pivotal in ensuring we deliver on that promise.

We are building a first-class, engineering-led data organization of Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Analytics Engineers. Your mission is to lead by example—building infrastructure, mentoring engineers, driving architecture decisions, and ensuring the performance and reliability of our data pipelines.

If you're excited by the idea of delivering impact through technical execution, leading talented engineers, and solving complex challenges across the modern data stack, we want to meet you.

What you’ll do:

• Manage, coach, and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers (data, platform)
• Design and deliver production-grade infrastructure for data transformation and real-time streaming
• Be a hands-on contributor—review code, own architecture, troubleshoot performance, and unblock engineers
• Drive data platform reliability across our Snowflake, dbt, and Decodable (Flink) pipelines
• Work closely with the Business Analytics team, helping them scale analyses, ingest new data sources, and productionize models in dbt
• Act as a bridge between the Business Analytics and Engineering teams—modeling upstream product data, supporting business operations use cases, and building systems that are analysis-friendly and production-grade
• Utilize AI capabilities through Snowflake Cortex for tasks such as semantic search, text embedding, and classification
• Partner with business departments to activate Large Language Models (LLMs) that improve operations, automate workflows, and reduce cognitive load for decision-makers across the company
• Define, enforce, and evolve SLAs, data governance, lineage, and monitoring standards (Monte Carlo, etc.)
• Own CI/CD and infra-as-code practices for the data platform (e.g., Snowflake Terraform, Airflow orchestration, observability)
• Partner with technical leads and report to the VP of Engineering, Data and AI to drive long-term strategy and team growth
• Collaborate with Engineering to understand the upstream data model and model it properly in the data warehouse.
• Partner with Customer Success to transform upstream data into actionable insights for CSMs.
• Support Marketing with targeting and segmentation initiatives, as well as attribution modeling and campaign analytics.
• Enable customer-facing product features by pushing data back into the product platform through Cube.dev, Drata's semantic layer.

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Data/Software Engineer working on data pipelines, distributed systems, or analytics infra
• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, ideally across platform and data disciplines
• Strong expertise in Python and SQL, with a track record of building reliable ETL/ELT jobs
• Proficiency in tools like Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Terraform, Decodable (Flink), Cube.dev, or equivalent
• Experience owning high-scale production data systems (batch + streaming) and enforcing strong testing & observability practices
• Familiarity with leveraging AI tools through data platforms such as Snowflake Cortex
• Excellent communicator and cross-functional partner; comfortable navigating product, infra, and business tradeoffs
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to rationalize the "why" behind decisions

Benefits:

• Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
• HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
• 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
• Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
• Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child
• Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
• 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected salary ranges for this role are below, subject to change.

Drata is on a mission to serve as the trust layer between great companies.

Drata is a trust management platform that uses AI-driven automation to modernize governance, risk, and compliance, helping thousands of businesses develop a more secure, proactive, and risk-aware organization to continuously maintain trust with customers.

Employment at Drata is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.