Data Engineering Manager

What You Will Do

• Provide full supervision and support for the local data engineering pod, spanning both data-platform and analytics/reporting work streams.
• Manage team capacity, lead hiring to backfill and grow the pod, and define team charters that support a fast-evolving data platform roadmap.
• Foster a high-performance culture across a distributed organization (Bangalore and EU), onboarding recent hires and establishing strong operational discipline (on-call/IRM, runbooks, incident response).
• Plan and execute multi-quarter initiatives with many interdependencies (e.g., the data lakehouse re-architecture (Apache Flink on GKE), the dedicated CTV late-impression pipeline, and CI/CD automation (ArgoCD)) ensuring alignment with architectural standards.
• Refine the team's engineering processes, methodologies, and technical standards: code quality, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, and cost optimization.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Backend Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to align the platform roadmap with business objectives.
• Stay active in technical implementation (estimated 50-70% hands-on): designing pipelines, delivering new product features, reviewing architecture and code, addressing tech debts, and troubleshooting production data issues.
• Undertake production responsibilities including setting up monitoring and alerts, oncall support, troubleshooting, incident management and communication, and postmortem.
• Independently design maintainable and scalable data systems for complex, high-throughput streaming and batch pipelines. Be aware and manage the infrastructure cost of data systems.

What You Will Bring

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Data Engineering, with a focus on leadership in technical settings.
• AdTech industry expertise (specifically programmatic auctions and high-volume bid/impression/RTB data) is strongly preferred.
• Expert knowledge of Python and SQL.
• Deep, hands-on experience with distributed data processing and streaming: Apache Spark / Spark Streaming and Apache Flink.
• Strong experience operating high-throughput event streaming and messaging with Apache Kafka.
• Proficiency with the Google Cloud data stack (BigQuery, GKE, GCS, Dataflow/Vertex AI) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Experience building and operating CI/CD for data pipelines (e.g., ArgoCD, containerized/Docker deployments).
• Working knowledge of lakehouse and open table formats (e.g., Iceberg/Delta) and the trade-offs between real-time and batch architectures (latency, cost, governance).
• Familiarity with analytics/OLAP and BI tooling (e.g., Druid, Looker, Rill/Turnilo) and dimensional data modeling.

What We Offer

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