Engineering Manager, Full Stack, Data

Overstory

Engineering Manager leading cross-functional teams in building data platforms at Overstory. Focusing on climate action, engineering talent, and collaborative culture.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPythonReactSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Enable our data engineers to become highly productive members of their cross-functional teams, empowering them to ship high-quality, reliable data platforms and pipelines on a daily basis.
Grow the teams by attracting great talent from your network.
Foster an inclusive and caring culture where everyone can do their best work.
Provide regular 1:1 coaching and feedback to tap into the potential of all your team members and help them thrive and reach their aspirations.
Be a strategic partner to product managers, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders within your domains and ensure that we are making the correct data architecture and platform decisions that balance short and long term goals.
Ensure suitability of the data architecture, pipelines, and data models within your domains to enable longer term product, analytics, and machine learning goals.
Work closely with the other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology and people, including improving our data engineering practices and introducing capabilities that can accelerate data access, reliability, and unlock new product and data-driven opportunities

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience working in a high growth scaleup environment
Passionate about climate
Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of data platforms and data-driven systems
2+ years experience leading and managing full-stack or data engineers across multiple teams
Experience working with the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/FastAPI, PostgresDB, data pipelines, SQL, data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster), data warehouses/lakehouses
Ability to unblock your team by contributing at a senior engineering level (e.g., reviewing data models, debugging pipelines, guiding architecture). How hands-on you'll be in this role will depend on team size and maturity
Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar, with an understanding of data reliability, observability, and pipeline operations
Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment
Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends, particularly at the intersection of agentic coding and engineering and data infrastructure

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits
Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets
A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis

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Hard Skills & Tools

ReactTypescriptPythonFastAPIPostgresDBSQLdata pipelinesAirflowDagsterdata warehouses

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationstrategic partnershipproblem-solvinginclusivityteam empowermentpassion for learning