Engineering Manager, Data Infrastructure

About TrueraTruera provides the first AI Quality platform, to help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve model quality and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, Truera’s platform helps eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. This visibility leads to higher quality, explainable models that achieve measurable business results, address unfair bias, and ensure governance and compliance.
We are excited about the amazing team we’re building at Truera. One of the core cultural principles at Truera is: “Create what’s not there.” We’re building a team of creator-builders who are excited about our mission and keen to build large-scale systems and drive cutting-edge research in support of it.
We are a rapidly growing Series B company funded by Greylock, Wing, and Menlo Ventures, and working with both Fortune 100 customers and startups throughout the world! 
About the jobAs the Engineering Manager for the TruEra Data team, you will lead, architect, build and manage real-time and batch data pipelines and data aggregation systems to empower self-service reporting on our big data platform and for AI/ML data infrastructure ecosystems. We're developing the platform for both public and private cloud environments with the container as first-class citizens. Infrastructure is at the core of our platform, and we're constantly innovating to make our systems more performant, timely, cost-effective, and capable while maintaining high reliability. You'll be architecting our core data and ML infrastructure and pipelines.

What You Will be Doing:

• Coach and mentor TruEra’s versatile engineers by giving them concrete feedback, setting clear goals, and coordinating project work with other teams and managers
• Apply technical leadership and expertise to both your team and across the engineering org
• Lead the design and implementation of complex distributed systems - be it a new service to power new functionality or data pipelines to ingest large volumes of data or implementing state-of-the-art complex algorithms.
• Manage a team of 5-10 Engineers
• Build APIs to backend complex data systems across a range of technologies to support new and improved product functionality.
• Collaborate closely with business leaders, product managers, designers, and data scientists to build a roadmap and goals for the team
• Deliver high-quality, impactful projects in record time with thoughtful planning
• Debug hard problems - that’s a given! When things break -- and they will -- you will find yourself debugging those challenging bugs and will be eager to fix things.
• Continuously learn something new, whether it’s a new technology or a quirk of a language we otherwise didn’t know. On occasion, you may find yourself picking up a new language or working with an unfamiliar platform
• Help define, build, and TruEra Data ecosystem as use cases grow
• Build scalable data pipelines to move data from different Storage systems to the Truera Platform
• Participate in early customer engagements and PoCs, and use that context to drive new product features
• Review design and code, and make sure what we ship is awesome
• “Create what’s not there”

Who You Are:

• Someone who enjoys having significant ownership of features and systems and pursues results-driven development approaches consistent with pragmatism.
• Someone who is set on building systems that balance scalability, availability, and latency.
• An advocate for improving engineering efficiency, continuous deployment and automation tooling, monitoring solutions, and self-healing systems that enhance the developer experience.
• Good communication skills, mentoring, and a force-multiplying track record.
• Experience in ground-up system building
• You have led and mentored others and care about the development of your teammates.
• You desire to learn and grow, push yourself and your team, share lessons with others and provide constructive and continuous feedback, and be receptive to feedback from others.

Prior Experience:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years experience directly managing backend or data infra engineer
• Strong product mindset and 5+ years of proven track record in building and maintaining big data platforms for streaming and batch data processing.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, building backend systems, and APIs.
• Experience with collaboration with product managers and dependent engineering teams in building roadmaps and executing with high quality and velocity
• Expertise in building data pipelines using open-source frameworks (Hadoo