Senior Platform & Data Systems Engineering Leader

Carbon Mapper; United States; Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Generous time-off policy

Professional development

Job summary

Carbon Mapper is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of senior engineers across software platforms, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. You will guide technical decisions, support career growth, and ensure delivery of high-quality data products.

You will partner with a Technical Project Manager and VP to shape roadmaps while maintaining hands-on engagement on key systems. The role emphasizes secure design, reliability, and cross-functional collaboration in a hybrid,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering management experience, including supporting senior individual contributors.
• Hands-on engineering background in Python and another backend language, with ability to read, review, and contribute to production code.
• Hands-on experience operating production AWS infrastructure for application, data, and platform systems (Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, networking).
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Terraform/IaC, containerized deploys) and a track record of safe, frequent releases.
• Observability and reliability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, on-call) for production services.
• Applied AI engineering experience with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or agentic AI workflows.
• Experience partnering with technical project or program managers, aligning people management with execution processes.
• Ability to identify risks, remove blockers, and support predictable delivery in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to build trust and provide clear feedback.
• Experience hiring and onboarding engineers in a growing organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of senior engineers across software platforms, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Oversee people management, performance reviews, career development, and feedback.
• Provide day-to-day guidance, remove blockers, and support engineers in delivering reliable outputs.
• Balance hands-on contributions with management duties across backend services and data pipelines.
• Partner with the Senior Technical Project Manager on planning and resourcing.
• Contribute to scoping, estimation, feasibility assessment, and sequencing of work.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies and planning; coordinate with the Senior Technical Project Manager.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture and system design for scalable, cloud-based data platforms.
• Own reliability, performance, and scalability of production services and data pipelines; manage capacity and on-call health.
• Champion secure design and IAM/data access controls.
• Support engineers in navigating tradeoffs and dependencies; escalate risks as needed.
• Promote CI/CD, testing, documentation, observability, and deployment practices.
• Identify delivery risks early and align with stakeholders for predictable execution.
• Collaborate with product, science, operations, and external partners for alignment.
• Support hiring and onboarding to enable new team members to contribute.
• Establish regular 1:1s and feedback loops to maintain team effectiveness.
• Foster ownership, transparency, and collaborative problem solving.
• Improve processes for clarity and predictability while minimizing overhead.

Skills

Engineering management

Python

Team leadership

Communication skills

AI engineering experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Delivery planning

Back-end development

Tools

AWS

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Carbon Mapper is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of senior engineers across software platforms, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. You will guide technical decisions, support career growth, and ensure delivery of high-quality data products.

You will partner with a Technical Project Manager and VP to shape roadmaps while maintaining hands-on engagement on key systems. The role emphasizes secure design, reliability, and cross-functional collaboration in a hybrid,