Senior Engineering Manager, Data Collections & Streaming Data Platform

About the role

In this role, you will partner closely with engineering managers, product managers, and technical leads across the Data Platform initiative to set technical direction and ensure these foundational systems are reliable, scalable, and easy to use. A key part of this role is acting as a genuine thought partner to your PM counterpart — deeply understanding the problems our internal customers face and shaping the product roadmap to solve them well.

Responsibilities

• Lead two engineering teams — Data Collections and Streaming Data Platform — establishing effective processes that drive collaboration across disciplines and ensure timely delivery.
• Partner closely with the broader Data Platform leadership team and stakeholders across engineering to understand needs and translate them into a clear technical roadmap.
• As a product-minded partner to your PM counterpart: spend time understanding the workflows and pain points of the internal engineering teams you serve, and use that context to help shape what gets built and why — not just how.
• Set clear team goals, prioritize projects, and ensure reliable delivery.
• Maintain system health and work proactively to identify and resolve issues before they impact downstream consumers.
• Build and maintain a culture of engineering excellence, including strong observability practices, incident response, and documentation standards.
• Take part in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring and onboarding exceptional engineering talent.
• Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team, creating clear paths for growth at all levels of seniority.
• Represent your teams' work and technical strategy to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

Experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, event streaming, or data pipelines at scale.

Proven ability to set technical direction across multiple teams, balancing long-term architectural investments with short-term delivery needs.

Deep comfort with the tradeoffs involved in building high-reliability, low-latency data infrastructure, and the ability to communicate those tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.

A product-minded orientation: genuine curiosity about the internal customers your teams serve, the problems they need to solve, and how your tooling can best address those needs. You see yourself as a partner in shaping what gets built, not just delivering it.

Skilled in coaching and mentoring engineers at all levels, shaping team processes for effective delivery, and building an inclusive and high-performing team culture.

Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working effectively with partner teams including data engineering, product engineering, and analytics.

5+ years of experience in engineering people management, ideally including experience managing multiple teams or a team of significant size and scope.

Ability to make data-driven decisions, promote high-quality technical decision-making, and excel in an experimentation and metrics-driven environment.

Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable working with diverse collaborators at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

Additional Information

If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you!

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