Sr. Manager, Data Platform Engineering

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$171k–$228k

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Simplisafe Senior Manager, Data Platform Engineering at SimpliSafe leads the team building and operating a modern enterprise data platform. This role manages platform operations, partners with vendors, and plans legacy infrastructure deprecation.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the team. Hire, coach, develop, and performance-manage platform, DevOps, and integration engineers plus the Data Architect, and manage capacity across build, migration, and legacy support.
Own the platform roadmap. Translate target architecture into sequenced capabilities, engineering standards, and team plans, balancing new capability against reliability, cost, and technical debt.
Own the core platform: environments, deployment patterns, orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation, delivered as self-service patterns and templates rather than a ticket queue.
Own ingestion and integration. Build reusable frameworks across batch, replication, CDC, and API, plus standards for source onboarding, schema change, data contracts, metadata, and lineage.
Own reliability and observability: incident response, recovery, on-call practices, monitoring, and alerting, extending coverage across data products with the Senior Manager, Data Engineering.
Own platform cost and performance. Drive compute and workload optimization and cost visibility, in partnership with Finance and Infrastructure.
Set architecture direction with the Data Architect on major decisions, standards, and exceptions without becoming an approval gate, and build security, privacy, access, and governance requirements into how the platform runs.
Own technical acceptance of implementation-partner work. Define acceptance criteria, review mechanisms, and knowledge transfer so our engineers can operate the platform before handoff.
Lead platform and ingestion migration off the legacy estate, supporting Data Engineering’s workload and data-product cutover.

Qualification

8+ years in data platformBuilt ingestion at scale (batchBachelor’s degree in computer scienceDatabricks depthAWS data stacks (S3Owned platform cost and performanceConsumer productsWhat Values You’ll Share

Required

8+ years in data platform, data engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years managing engineering teams, with a track record of hiring senior and staff engineers and growing technical leadership beneath you.
Built and operated a modern cloud lakehouse in production (Databricks or comparable), including the environment, CI/CD, and access model, not only the workloads running on it.
Ran a platform migration while the legacy environment stayed in production: parallel operation, reconciliation, cutover, and decommissioning.
Led external delivery partners or vendor engineering teams. Defined technical acceptance criteria, held partners to them, and brought the capability in-house rather than leaving a dependency.
Built ingestion at scale (batch, replication, CDC, and API) on a reusable framework, with production pipeline reliability as your responsibility.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

Databricks depth: Unity Catalog, Workflows/Jobs, Delta/DLT.
AWS data stacks (S3, Iceberg/Delta) and streaming (Kafka).
Owned platform cost and performance: accountable for a consumption or budget line, with specific optimizations you can point to.
Retired or replaced in-house platform component in favor of a supported alternative.
Consumer products, hardware, technology, or subscription businesses.
What Values You’ll Share
Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.

Benefits

Equity/RSU
Annual Bonus
Wellness
Flexible Work

Company

Simplisafe

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