Engineering Manager - Platform (Experienced)

About us

At Dagster Labs, we’re an early-stage, well-funded startup team with a proven track record of shipping open-source software with global adoption. Our mission is to empower organizations to create scalable, productive data platforms. 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 position offering competitive salary, equity, and benefits. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis. We’re open to hiring fully remote candidates who are currently authorized to work within the United States. We offer flexible remote work options so you can choose the environment that makes you most productive—whether that’s your home or a coworking space. Dagster Labs fosters a collaborative, remote-first culture, ensuring you have all the tools and support needed to thrive, no matter where you are.

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

• 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