Data Engineering Manager

Angi • NY

81d • $190,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Angi is looking for a Data Engineering Manager with strong leadership, technical depth, and delivery experience to help shape the future of our global data platform. You’ll lead the Data Processing & Storage (DPS) team within the Data Platform Products domain under the Technical Foundations Zone - the group responsible for building, scaling, and evolving the core data infrastructure that powers analytics, experimentation, and machine learning across Angi. As an Engineering Manager focused on data engineering, you will lead a team of experienced data engineers, owning critical components of our ingestion, storage, and compute layers. You’ll balance hands-on technical involvement with people leadership - fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence. You’ll play a key role in building and scaling the foundation of Angi’s unified data platform - where our lakehouse powers analytics and data-driven products across vast datasets. The Data Processing & Storage team, within the Data Platform Products focus area under the Technical Foundations Zone, sits at the heart of this mission - ensuring Angi’s data ecosystem remains modern, scalable, and built for the future.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering or software engineering, with a deep understanding of distributed data systems and modern data architecture.
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including performance management and leading senior engineers.
• Proven experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-based data platforms, ideally in AWS (S3, Glue, IAM, CLI, etc.) or equivalent environments.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and Python, and a strong understanding of ETL/ELT workflows and data lifecycle management.
• Deep experience with data warehouse and data lakehouse technologies such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, and Trino as the primary compute infrastructure.
• Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or Flyte) and data integration tools (Fivetran, Stitch, Airbyte, Meltano, or Glue).
• Experienced with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and deployment automation.
• Comfortable with Docker and Kubernetes, deploying and scaling data-intensive workloads in containerized environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively across technical and business teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing or contributing to data mesh architectures.
• Familiarity with dbt and data modeling frameworks (Kimball, Star Schema).
• Experience with Spark, DuckDB, or other distributed compute frameworks.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures or streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).
• Understanding of ML platforms or advanced analytics systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of experienced data engineers, supporting their growth, performance, and technical development.
• Design and deliver large-scale, reliable, and cost-efficient data pipelines and platforms that power analytics, reporting, and data-driven products.
• Own and evolve the core compute data infrastructure built on Trino, ensuring scalable, performant, and cost-optimized query processing across the data lakehouse environment.
• Oversee major data migrations from our warehouse systems to modern, cloud-native lakehouse data platforms with minimal disruption.
• Drive the evolution of our data lakehouse and warehouse ecosystems, optimizing storage, compute, and orchestration for performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Analytics, and Engineering teams to deliver data infrastructure that enables trustworthy and timely insights.
• Champion best practices in data modeling, governance, and observability to ensure data quality, discoverability, and reliability across the organization.
• Contribute to infrastructure and automation, leveraging tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistency, scalability, and resilience.
• Stay technically engaged, participating in architectural design, reviewing implementations, and guiding the team through complex technical decisions.
• Leverages AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) to improve coding speed and debug faster.

Benefits

• The salary band for this position ranges from $190,000 - $210,000 commensurate with experience and performance.
• This position will be eligible for a competitive year end performance bonus & equity package.
• Full medical, dental, vision package to fit your needs.
• Flexible vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it.
• Pet discount plans & retirement plan with company match (401K).
• The rare opportunity to work with sharp, motivated teammates solving some of the most unique challenges and changing the world.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees