
Engineering Manager – Data Engineering
Upside
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Austin • Illinois • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $185,000 - $215,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Co-Create and drive the vision and roadmap for Upside’s data platform, shaping the strategy for data across Upside in alignment with company goals.
- Ensure our data stack, which includes Snowflake, dbt, and Dagster, enables scalable, self-service, and trustworthy workflows for reporting, analytics, and experimentation.
- Drive strategic data platform initiatives that improve reproducibility, reliability, and analytics enablement—such as modernizing legacy infrastructure, implementing tools like Snowflake Semantic Views and Cortex, and transforming 3rd-party data into trusted, production-ready assets.
- Define and track key platform health metrics, including pipeline reliability, SLA adherence, cost-efficiency, and model deployment readiness.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and GTM stakeholders to ensure the data platform supports current and emerging business needs.
- Represent Analytics Engineering in company-wide planning forums, technical councils, and cross-functional working groups.
Requirements
- Have 3+ years of experience managing data, analytics, or ML engineering teams, and at least 3+ years of hands-on experience as an individual contributor building data products, pipelines, or ML systems.
- Are proficient with modern data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake, dbt, and Dagster, and are fluent in core concepts like modeling, orchestration, and data transformation.
- Have hands-on experience or deep familiarity with MLOps practices, such as model versioning, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and reproducibility.
- Thrive in environments where you’re asked to scale teams, elevate systems, and bring clarity to ambiguity.
- Are comfortable designing and reviewing solutions in AWS environments, and make thoughtful tradeoffs to balance performance, cost, and maintainability.
- Are eager to integrate generative AI tools into development workflows to accelerate delivery and improve the developer experience.
- Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, and can advocate effectively for platform investments that support long-term business value.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1
- Equity (ISOs)
- 401(k) program
- Family planning programs + paid parental leave
- Physical fitness and wellness memberships
- Emotional and mental health support programs
- Unlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + our annual, week-long Winter Break
- Flexible work environment
- Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
- Employee Resource Groups
- Learning and Development stipend
- Transparent culture
- Amazing mission!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data managementanalytics engineeringML engineeringdata productsdata pipelinesMLOpsmodel versioningdata transformationorchestrationmodel deployment
Soft Skills
team managementstrategic thinkingcross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingclarity in ambiguityadvocacyleadership