Director, Data Engineering

October 13

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛍️ eCommerce

🧘 Wellness

📋 Description

• Lead and scale two squads — Platform Engineering (core data infrastructure) and Customer Events Engineering (Unified Event Tracking & instrumentation) • Drive the execution and completion of Data Platform V2.0 and UET rollout, ensuring system reliability, performance, and full adoption across business domains • Oversee the Unified Event Tracking framework, delivering a single, standardized system for event collection, schema management, and observability across CRM, Marketing, and Product teams • Partner with Marketing, Product, Engineering and CRM stakeholders to design and govern customer event instrumentation, ensuring accurate, privacy-compliant, and scalable data collection • Oversee platform stability and efficiency across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers, ensuring high data quality and operational consistency • Implement best-in-class engineering practices — CI/CD for data, automated testing, lineage tracking, observability, and SLAs • Coach and develop tech leads, and senior ICs, fostering ownership, technical depth, and accountability • Champion data governance and compliance, ensuring all event and user data meets privacy, security, and policy standards • Optimize Databricks compute and cost, improving workload placement, performance, and transparency • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to prioritize delivery, remove blockers, and align technical execution with business timelines • Build and maintain strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Analytics, Engineering and Marketing to ensure delivery of high-impact data initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • 15+ years of experience in software or data engineering, with deep expertise in distributed systems, pipelines, and event data architecture • 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, managing managers and senior technical leads across multiple teams • Proven success leading large-scale data platform and event tracking initiatives through completion • Strong technical command of SQL and Python, with practical experience using Databricks, Spark, Kafka/Confluent, dbt, Airflow/Astronomer, Terraform, GTM, GA, AWS, and related data technologies • Proven track record of leading technical strategy, making architectural decisions, and delivering large-scale systems with cross-functional impact • Hands-on experience with event data architectures, schema management, and analytics enablement • Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence — ensuring reliability, performance, and cost optimization at scale • Experience building and developing high-performing, inclusive teams and coaching senior engineers and EMs • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and executive audiences • Strong program execution skills — able to align multiple teams, track progress, and deliver predictable outcomes.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles • Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) • 401k benefits with employer matching contribution • Offsite team retreats