Engineering Manager, Data Platform

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We're building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.We've seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin.We've earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list every year since 2023. Last but not least, we've even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you're located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.Role: We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team , responsible for building and scaling the data infrastructure that powers SentiLink's products and decisioning systems.This team owns the pipelines, storage systems, and data services that enable all of our products, data analysis and business intelligence. These systems are foundational to how we detect fraud, power machine learning models, and deliver insights to customers.As the manager of this team, you will lead a group of engineers responsible for designing and operating scalable data systems—from ingestion and transformation to serving and analytics. You'll partner closely with Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and actionable across the company.This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform architecture, and people leadership . You'll define technical direction, improve the reliability and scalability of our data systems, and help evolve our data platform to support the company's next stage of growth.We're looking for a manager who has strong data engineering fundamentals and enjoys engaging deeply with technical systems—guiding architecture, reviewing designs, and helping solve complex data challenges.This is a remote, US-based position.Technologies: Golang, Python, PostgreSQL (RDS), Redshift, EMR, Spark, Docker, OpenSearch, AWS technologies (Lambda, Cognito and other standard services)Responsibilities: Lead and grow a team of data engineers responsible for SentiLink's data platform and infrastructureDefine and drive the technical vision for data ingestion, processing, storage, and serving systemsDesign and evolve scalable data pipelines (batch and real-time) to support product and data science use casesEnsure high standards for data quality, reliability, and observability across all data systemsPartner with Data Science to enable their pipelines and enable efficient access to high-quality dataCollaborate with Product and Engineering teams to power data-driven features and decisioning systemsWork closely with Infrastructure to optimize performance, cost, and scalability of data systemsEstablish best practices for data governance, schema management, and pipeline reliabilitySupport operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response for data systemsHire, mentor, and develop engineers while maintaining a high hiring barFoster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvementContribute to architecture and technical problem-solving as neededRequirements: 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading data or platform teamsStrong background as a senior or staff-level data engineer or backend engineer with data focusExperience building and scaling data platforms, including ETL/ELT pipelines and data infrastructureProficiency in Python, Golang, or similar languagesDeep understanding of distributed data systems, batch and streaming architecturesExperience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)Strong knowledge of databases, data modeling, and query optimization (SQL, RDBMS, data warehouses)Track record of delivering reliable, scalable data systems in production environmentsComfortable leading technical discussions and diving into system design detailsExperience operating in fast-paced, startup or growth-stage environmentsExperience with big data and streaming technologies (Spark, Kafka, Flink, etc.) preferredFamiliarity with data lakes, warehouses (Redshift), and modern data architectures preferredExperience building data platforms that support ML or fraud/risk systems preferredFintech or fraud domain experience preferredCompensation: $200,000/year - $240,000/year + equity + benefitsPerks: Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)Flexible paid time offRegular company-wide in-person eventsHome office stipend, and more!Corporate Values: Follow ThroughDeep UnderstandingWhatever It TakesDo Something Smart