Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure & Data Engineering

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Ignite Reading

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 $36.8M Series B - Ignite Reading on 2024-10

Education • B2B

Ignite Reading is an early literacy intervention provider that partners with K–2 school districts to deliver daily, 1:1, Science of Reading–aligned tutoring using certified literacy instructors. The program combines a structured curriculum, centralized scheduling, progress monitoring, and district-level reporting to close reading gaps, scale quickly across schools, and reduce teacher workload. Ignite focuses on measurable student outcomes and works primarily with districts and schools to implement and manage tutoring programs.

📋 Description

• Lead, manage, and grow the DevOps and Data Engineering teams • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development for six engineers • Develop technical leads within each team • Set and drive a unified platform roadmap with the Director of Engineering and VP of Data • Balance infrastructure investment, data platform direction, technical debt, and delivery needs • Ensure reliable, scalable, and secure AWS cloud infrastructure • Maintain smooth and efficient deployment pipelines for the engineering organization • Ensure the data platform serves product engineering and analytics/data science teams • Establish clear intake, prioritization, and data quality standards • Oversee monitoring, alerting, on-call, and incident response • Own the annual SOC2 audit and penetration test cycles • Coordinate auditors, vendors, and internal teams • Track remediation • Collaborate with development teams to integrate DevOps and data best practices into the software development lifecycle • Write and collaborate on technical specifications • Review designs and guide architectural decisions • Model effective use of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and similar AI tools • Coach teams on AI-assisted development practices • Track and share team-level AI adoption progress, wins, and learnings

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software, infrastructure, or data engineering • 2+ years directly managing engineers • Deep, hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure/DevOps or modern data engineering • Working fluency in the other domain • Experience running a team serving multiple internal customers • Familiarity with security and compliance standards such as SOC2 • Experience owning a compliance program end-to-end • Experience developing senior engineers into technical leads • Experience building team resilience through documentation, on-call health, and single-point-of-failure reduction • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills • Strategic thinking and ability to balance short-term objectives with long-term goals • Ability to be self-managing and flexible in a remote environment • Demonstrated regular use of AI coding assistants • Ability to validate AI outputs and identify when suggestions should be modified or rejected • Understanding of when AI tools add value versus traditional approaches • Willingness to learn, adapt to, and coach others on AI development tools and practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee Stock Options • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans (80% employee coverage, 70% dependent coverage) • Short-term Disability (100% employer paid) • 401(k) retirement plans with company contribution • 12-weeks paid parental leave • Unlimited vacation days • 12 paid holidays • Technology Stipend • Wellness Stipend • Voluntary Life Insurance • Professional Development Stipend