Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

About the role

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.

What you’ll do

• Drive a motivating technical vision for the team
• Partner closely with product management to solve business problems
• Work with the team to build a world-class architecture that can scale into the next phase of Checkr’s growth
• Hire the best talent and continue to raise the bar for the team
• Represent the team in planning and product meetings
• Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality

What you bring

• 5+ years as an engineering manager and 5+ years as an engineer
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Unparalleled bar for quality and operational excellence
• Experience working on big data products at scale
• AI first mindset
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Experience designing and maintaining:
• Real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
• Normalizing and cleansing data across a medallion lakehouse architecture
• Systems that rely on high-volume, low-latency messaging infrastructure (e.g. Kafka or similar)
• Highly tolerant production systems with streamlined operations (data lineage, logging, telemetry, alerting, etc.)
• Familiarity with Cloud / big data tooling: AWA EMR, Databricks, Spark etc.
• Familiarity with DevOps (including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerization, etc.)
• Familiarity with developing APIs and backend microservices
• Compliance and regulatory landscape understanding
• Exposure to working in the identity space

Pay Transparency Disclosure

We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

What We Offer

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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