DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility.
The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos.
The Role
DataHub is building the enterprise context platform that makes AI agents reliable, accurate, and enterprise-ready. We are the open source standard for metadata and context management, with a community of thousands of engineers and deployments at some of the world's most data-intensive companies, including Apple, Netflix, JP Morgan Chase, Warner Bros. Games, and Optum. As we scale our business, we are looking for an Engineering Manager, Ingestion
Reporting to: VP of Engineering
Works closely with: Founders, Product, Engineering, and cross-functional leaders
Location: Remote, with team members across the US, Europe, and India
Role overview
Ingestion is DataHub's front door - the core platform that pulls metadata from 100+ external systems (BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, SageMaker, Tableau, and many more) into DataHub. These ecosystems evolve quickly, so we need a leader who can set clear technical direction amid ambiguity and keep the platform scalable, reliable, and easy to extend.
You’ll lead a globally distributed team of 10-11 engineers across India, Europe, and the US West Coast. You will own the strategy for our connector ecosystem. In addition to your team you will work closely with the open source community and third parties on connector development. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on technical complexity, scale, and cross-functional collaboration. Your work will directly determine how fast customers get value from DataHub. Success in this role requires a track record of managing across geographies, building high‑performing teams, and leading complex integration and pipeline work.
What you’ll own
- Platform Architecture: Lead the evolution of our ingestion framework to handle high-throughput ingestion of structured and unstructured metadata at enterprise scale. Evolve the Remote Executor platform that lets ingestion run securely in customer environments..
- AI-driven time-to-Value: Spearhead the development of intelligent, agent-based solutions. Onboarding agents that speed up new customer ramp, and troubleshooting agents that enable self-service resolution of integration failures.
- Cross team Partnership: Work with Product to set the strategy, and with Customer Support, Customer Success and Sales to resolve customer issues and improve stability.
- Platform health: Drive down technical debt and invest in developer productivity and long-term reliability.
What success looks like
- Expanded Reach: A broader, deeper connector ecosystem, built through internal engineering plus community and third-party contributions.
- Reliability: Fewer failures and faster resolution through proactive investment in platform stability.
- Execution velocity: Strong delivery without sacrificing team health or morale.
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in data infrastructure, platform, ingestion, or integration-heavy environments.
- Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable backend architecture.
- Experience managing globally distributed teams across time zones.
- Ability to work closely with founders, product, and cross-functional leaders.
- Comfort balancing strategy, execution, customer issues, and team development.
- Strong judgment, communication, and ownership.
Bonus if you have
- Experience with connectors, integrations, ETL, or metadata systems.
- Background building or scaling developer platforms, SDKs, or remote execution infrastructure.
- Experience at a fast-growing startup or high-scale data platform company.
- Familiarity with Python-based ingestion systems and cloud-native execution.
Why this role matters
Without Ingestion, DataHub's catalog doesn't stay complete, current, or useful. This team is what makes the platform's core promise real. DataHub is at an inflection point in a category that's becoming central to how enterprises build and govern AI, and this role has a rare chance to help shape how that category is understood by the market.
Why NowEvery enterprise is scrambling to make their data AI-ready. They're discovering that traditional catalogs can't provide the context AI agents need. DataHub is positioned to own this massive shift—but only with engineering leadership that truly understands both the technical and cultural transformation required.
If you want to define how engineering teams build in the AI era while shipping the infrastructure that makes agentic workflows possible, let's talk.
Location: East Coast (Remote)
We invest in people so they can do their best work and enjoy doing it. Our benefits reflect the way we build: practical, thoughtful, and designed to support long-term growth.
Competitive compensation
We offer salaries that reflect your skills, experience, and the impact you make. You bring value—we make sure you're recognized for it.
Equity for everyone
Every team member receives an ownership stake in the company. When we grow, you grow with us.
Remote Work
All roles are remote unless otherwise specified in the job description. Review the job description to confirm if the role you are interested in is remote or hybrid.
Location flexibility
Home office, coworking space, or something in between? We support your ideal setup. You’ll receive a monthly coworking stipend to use whenever you need a change of pace or in-person collaboration time.
Comprehensive health coverage
Your well-being matters. We cover 99% of medical, dental, and vision premiums employees, and 65% for dependents.
Flexible savings accounts
We offer FSAs to help cover planned or unexpected healthcare costs. You can also opt into a Dependent Care FSA to support family needs.
Support for every path to parenthood
Through Carrot Fertility, we provide inclusive fertility benefits and family-forming support. All U.S. employees have access, regardless of age, gender identity, or family structure.
Time off that works for you
We trust you to take the time you need. Our unlimited PTO and sick leave policy is designed for flexibility, rest, and real life.
Why Join Us
DataHub is at a rare inflection point: we’ve achieved product-market fit, earned the trust of leading enterprises, and secured backing from top-tier investors like Bessemer Venture Partners and 8VC. The context platform market is expected to grow from $1B to $9B in the next five years—and we’re leading the way.
By joining our team, you’ll:
- Tackle high-impact challenges at the heart of enterprise AI infrastructure
- Ship production systems that power real-world use cases at global scale
- Collaborate with a high-caliber team of builders who’ve scaled some of the most influential data tools in the world
- Build the next generation of AI-native data systems, including conversational agents, intelligent classification, automated governance, and more
If you're passionate about technology, enjoy working with customers, and want to be part of a fast-growing company changing the industry, we want to hear from you!
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in data infrastructure, platform, ingestion, or integration-heavy environments
- Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable backend architecture
- Experience managing globally distributed teams across time zones
- Ability to work closely with founders, product, and cross-functional leaders
- Comfort balancing strategy, execution, customer issues, and team development
- Strong judgment, communication, and ownership
- Experience with connectors, integrations, ETL, or metadata systems
- Background building or scaling developer platforms, SDKs, or remote execution infrastructure
- Experience at a fast-growing startup or high-scale data platform company
- Familiarity with Python-based ingestion systems and cloud-native execution
What We Do
Founded by the leaders that built data teams at LinkedIn and Airbnb, Acryl Data enables you to take back control of your fragmented data stack. We do this by driving the #1 open source Metadata Platform DataHub, which has a community of 8,000+ data practitioners and is deployed in 1,000+ companies. Acryl DataHub is a third-generation streaming metadata platform that integrates with 50+ tools (dbt, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Looker, etc) in the data stack to enable data discovery, data lineage, data governance, and data observability. ✅ Connect to your data sources within minutes, and gain end-to-end visibility. ✅ Power mission-critical workflows with a SOC-2-compliant platform. ✅ Bring data and business teams together with a single source of truth to create governed data products. Powering data teams at Notion, Zendesk, Riskified, and many more!
