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Engineering Manager – Data Platform
| Company | Nextdoor |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $220000 – $265000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ Years of experience in a high performance distributed systems engineering environment, preferably working on large scale data intensive problems
- 1+ years of people management, leading technical teams in a fast moving data intensive domain and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
- Strong technical background with the ability to set longer term architectural priorities while maintaining the ability to break those priorities into deliverable milestones
- Experience operating Spark, Delta Lake and the Databricks platform at scale
- Ability to drive a strong sense of ownership across the team, while celebrating wins and learning from experiments
- Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
- Collaborative, thoughtful, and strategic leadership; comfortable with open communication and giving/receiving constructive feedback respectfully
- Empathy and customer obsession for collaborating with other infra and product teams across the company
Responsibilities
- Providing technical direction and guidance for the evolution of a Data Platform operating at a scale of tens of Petabytes. Today, our environment is primarily Spark hosted on Databricks
- Scaling an engineering team with a culture of high technical performance and pragmatic decision making
- You’ll build partnerships with key stakeholders, evangelize the use of the platform, and develop a roadmap for future development
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
