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Sr. Engineering Manager - Data Platform

GoHighLevel· Engineering – Data Platform
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Remote$220k - $290kEE Full-TimePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for strategy, execution, and evolution of HighLevel's foundational data systems. Leads a data platform and infrastructure team to build reliable, scalable, secure, and developer-friendly data infrastructure across ingestion, processing, storage, compute, orchestration, observability, and cross-team data products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, recruit, and mentor an exceptional engineering team.
  • Direct data infrastructure strategy to drive business and product success.
  • Oversee resource allocation, including headcount and vendor budget planning.
  • Establish operational rhythms, goals, and execution frameworks aligned with core business outcomes.
  • Cultivate an inclusive environment focused on ownership, technical rigor, and continuous professional development.
  • Champion team morale, engagement, learning opportunities, and delivery velocity.
  • Guide system architecture, data flow design, quality standards, and platform roadmaps.
  • Partner with Product and Data leadership to plan, sequence, and execute multi-quarter initiatives.
  • Define robust platform abstractions, APIs, and SLAs to streamline developer workflows and increase adoption.
  • Ensure infrastructure resilience through monitoring, incident management, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
  • Work cross-functionally with Security, Audit, and Analytics Engineering to deploy key capabilities and compliance controls.
  • Engage with Data, Product, and Finance partners to enable machine learning, experimentation, and business reporting.
  • Establish and enforce organization-wide standards for pipeline reliability, data security, and quality.
  • Advocate for automation, engineering best practices, and thoughtful trade-offs between execution speed and long-term scalability.
  • Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous settings while cultivating senior technical leaders and building leadership succession through delegated autonomy.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE or infrastructure, data platform engineering, or related fields.
  • 4+ years managing high-performing technical teams, growing and developing people
  • Deep expertise with Snowflake/Google BigQuery/Databricks or equivalent modern data warehousing systems and ecosystem of tools including Airflow, DBT etc.
  • Familiarity with Git and CI/CD workflows
  • Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and infrastructure workload management.
  • Experience defining data security, platform SLAs and governance frameworks.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy across multiple organizations.

Skills

Required:Data platform leadershipSnowflake / BigQuery / DatabricksAirflowDBTCI/CDData security / governanceStakeholder managementLeadership & mentoring
Nice to have:Observability / incident management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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