Engineering Manager - Platform (Experienced)

About us

We’re an early-stage, well-funded startup team with a proven track record of shipping open-source software with global adoption. We put a premium on respectful, clear, and complete communication, and we expect each other to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic.

We believe deeply that the right tools and abstractions enable not just technological transformation, but also organizational transformation. We strive to put the user and their hard work at the center of our decision making. In practice, that means we are looking for engineers who want to write clean APIs and helpful error messages, and who always try to understand user needs when designing a new system.

All of our open-source work is done publicly. You can gain context about how we collaborate as a team and the problems we work on by exploring GitHub and looking at our code reviews.

About the role

Dagster’s Platform Engineering team is responsible for operating and scaling Dagster+ and our internal developer tooling. We’re a mix of senior platform engineers, product infrastructure engineers, and site-reliability engineers who are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead our scalability efforts, maintain a high bar for product performance, improve our internal tooling and processes, and keep us unblocked.

This is a full-time, competitively-paid position with benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We have team members all over the U.S., and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Platform Team’s goals, strategy and roadmap.
• Run the team’s day-to-day operations.
• Manage our platform engineers. Hold regular 1:1s and manage their performance and career growth.
• Project manage the team’s work. Create/maintain processes to reprioritize as necessary and maintain alignment of actual work with goals.
• Manage external team communication, coordination and relationships to allow visibility and collaboration with other teams.
• Help improve engineering excellence across the organization. Champion a postmortem culture.
• Understand technical choices and drive consensus for the team.

Must-have Qualifications

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

• 5+ years of relevant hands-on engineering experience.
• 5+ years platform and infra engineering management experience, deep understanding and experience in managing teams effectively in the space.
• Highly effective leader among senior engineers & experience managing very senior engineers.
• Experience leading and managing managers.
• Highly effective people manager.
• Highly effective project manager running teams, planning and running a lean and continues process improvement.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong collaborator and coordinator.
• Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on large-scale distributed systems or B2B SaaS applications.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Prior experience with AWS and other cloud providers

You belong here

We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open-source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives.

You should apply to work at Dagster Labs if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.

Our Stack

Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript to work on macOS, Posix, and Windows. We use GraphQL, Apollo, and React to develop beautiful frontend tooling. We integrate with a wide range of databases, data warehouses, orchestration engines, compute substrates, and cloud services.

The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $215,000 - $250,000.

Other Resources:

• The launch of Dagster blog post
• Launching Dagster Cloud to GA blog post
• The Data Engineering Impedance Mismatch blogpost/presentation
• What Dagster Believes About Data Platforms
• Software-Defined Assets blog post, Data Council talk, and animated explainer
• The April 2024 Dagster+ launch event