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Software for rapid military planning: make planning fast enough for today's environment
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Foundations
Location
United States
Posted
147 days ago
Salary
$240K - $290K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Engineering Manager, Data Foundations
Onebrief
• Build and lead a focused team designed for high ownership and fast architectural decision-making, with opportunity to expand over time. • Own Onebrief’s data model, schema, and evolution strategy from first principles • Lead large-scale architectural change, setting standards for how data is structured, versioned, and governed • Partner closely with product, platform & infrastructure teams as an application architecture leader. • Drive execution of foundational roadmap initiatives tied to long-term platform success. • Develop Principle, Staff, and Senior engineers, creating clarity and autonomy without becoming a bottleneck • You won’t be writing production code day to day, but this is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll be making decisions impacting system design, application architecture and technical tradeoffs.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years total engineering experience (backend, data, or full-stack)
- 4+ years directly managing software/data engineering teams
- Proven experience designing and scaling data-intensive systems for SaaS or platform products
- Experience evolving data models and APIs in production systems with real customers and partners
- Demonstrated ability to set and communicate a technical vision for a team or platform area
- Strong people leader with experience hiring, mentoring, and growing senior, staff and principle engineers
- Track record of navigating complex tradeoffs while maintaining team health and delivery
- Comfortable collaborating with senior stakeholders and influencing across organizational boundaries
- Deep understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with distributed systems and data platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, graph databases)
- Familiarity with API design, contract versioning, and developer-facing data platforms
- Cloud-native experience (AWS preferred)
- U.S. Citizenship required, with the ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance (not required day 1).
Benefits
- Offers Equity
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