Engineering Manager, Data Platform

ServiceTitan ServiceTitan · Enterprise · United States · Remote

Engineering Manager for a Data & Reporting Platform team, focusing on building and maintaining data infrastructure for an enterprise. Responsibilities include people leadership, architectural guidance, ensuring platform reliability and scalability, performance optimization, and data governance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and Mentor: Manage and grow a team of 5+ data engineers. Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and invest in career development. Build a team culture rooted in ownership, craftsmanship, and psychological safety.
  2. Architectural Leadership: Drive architectural decisions across the platform, with particular depth in Data Sharing and Semantic Layer design. Ensure systems are built for high availability, scalability, and security.
  3. Technical Excellence: Guide the team through complex technical challenges, including Semantic Modeling, data mesh patterns, and platform reliability. Hold a high bar for code quality, testing, and observability.
  4. Performance Optimization: Lead efforts to improve query performance and platform efficiency so that data consumers across the organization can access what they need quickly and reliably.
  5. Strategic Execution: Collaborate with product managers and architects to define and deliver the data platform roadmap. Translate business requirements into technical priorities and communicate trade-offs clearly.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years in data or software engineering
  • 2+ years managing engineering teams of 5 or more
  • Proven experience designing complex data systems
  • Specific expertise in Semantic Layering and Data Sharing at enterprise scale
  • Deep, hands-on experience with dbt and semantic models
  • Strong proficiency with Snowflake and SQL
  • Experience owning on-call processes
  • Managing incidents
  • Defining operational metrics
  • Solid command of CI/CD practices
  • Experience with data observability tooling
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to align cross-functional stakeholders
  • Articulate technical trade-offs
  • Influence architectural direction without direct authority

Nice to have

  • Spark
  • Python
  • Snowpark
  • Cursor
  • Claude CLI/Code
  • Kibana
  • Airflow
  • DataDog
  • Monte Carlo
  • GitHub Actions