About the Role
<h2>Role Description</h2> <div> <div> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">We are seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead the team responsible for Dropbox’s underlying data foundations that power our business as a whole. This is a hands-on engineering leader who owns the pipelines and data products that Product, GTM, Finance, and the CTO organization depend on to make decisions.</span></div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">In this role, you will lead and grow a team of data engineers building and operating our ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers, as well as the self-serve analytics substrate that lets partner teams answer their own questions without bespoke engineering work.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">The ideal candidate is a deeply technical, product-minded engineering leader who can hold a high bar on system reliability and data quality while partnering closely with Data Science, Business Intelligence Engineering, Analytics, and Product to turn fragmented, ticket-driven data work into durable, reusable data products.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze"><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z">Our Engineering Career Framework is </span><span class="attrlink url author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z"><a class="attrlink" href="https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/" target="_blank" data-target-href="https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/"><u>viewable by anyone outside the company</u></a></span><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z"> and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more </span><span class="attrlink url author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z"><a class="attrlink" href="https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world" target="_blank" data-target-href="https://dropbox.tech/culture/sharing-our-engineering-career-framework-with-the-world">here</a></span><span class=" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90z95lz89zy6z71zz79zz84zz68zyz69zupz72zz79zcz69zz76zkz79zp1z66ztz67zxz71zz89zz86zz71z">.</span></span></div> </div> <h2>Responsibilities</h2> <ul class="listtype-bullet listindent1 list-bullet1" data-testid="bullet-list" data-test-indentation="1"> <li> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">Data Quality & Observability: Establish and enforce a rigorous data quality culture: lineage, freshness monitoring, anomaly detection, and outcome-oriented, gaming-resistant quality metrics.</span></div> </li> <li> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">Self-Serve Platform: Lead the engineering of the self-serve analytics substrate, reducing bespoke request volume and increasing partner-team autonomy.</span></div> </li> <li> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">Cost & Efficiency: Own the unit economics of the data platform — compute and storage efficiency — and drive measurable improvements without sacrificing reliability.</span></div> </li> <li> <div><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotuz85zgnz90zacz87zz122zgvz72zz86z85z67z5pz70zloy4qz74zz67zz73zz66znz70ze">Cros