Ridgeline

Ridgeline

Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

San Ramon, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$212k-$250kDetected 41 days ago
JavaKotlinGitData EngineeringRecruitingHRISLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency.
  • We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions - not just problems.
  • We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture.

Responsibilities

  • Do you thrive on building organizations whose output becomes the foundation every product team depends on?
  • As a Senior Engineering Manager at Ridgeline, you will lead the team responsible for Ridgeline's data access and semantics layer - the infrastructure that defines what data means, governs how it's written, and standardizes how it's read across the platform.
  • Drive your team's roadmap toward a universal query interface - reducing direct-to-persistence-store patterns in product code and establishing store access adapters as the platform standard
  • Partner with Staff+ engineers to shape the write path architecture, guiding replication and indexing pipelines toward a declarative, independently authored model running on shared compute infrastructure
  • Champion the long-term investment in query federation - building organizational and technical readiness for cross-store analytics without coupling product engineering to persistence infrastructure
  • Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent - cultivating a culture of data correctness, technical thoroughness, and platform ownership
  • Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to align data platform investments with company objectives
  • Manage the inter-team interface with infrastructure partners - your team authors what flows through the persistence and event infrastructure; you own the contracts and access patterns that make that work reliable
  • Experience building or managing data access abstractions - store access adapters, query federation engines, or platform-level query interfaces that standardize how services read data

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5+ years managing engineering teams

Compensation

  • The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $212,000 - $250,000.
  • Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amount listed above.
  • In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement.

Benefits

  • These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans.
  • Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

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