Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Dagster Labs, a well-funded startup, as an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact team responsible for advancing Dagster's Core API and product offerings. You will guide your team in solving complex user challenges in data pipeline creation, coach and empower engineers, and foster a collaborative culture. This full-time, remote-friendly position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits. You'll work closely with cross-functional partners, driving measurable impact through high-quality engineering work. We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis and are open to hiring fully remote candidates authorized to work in the US. We offer flexible remote work options.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager, successfully leading product teams and mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate effectively with senior engineers, stakeholders, and peers
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence in articulating and defending technical and strategic viewpoints
• Demonstrated project management expertise, with a track record of running efficient teams and fostering a culture of continuous process improvement
• Experience in a high-performing engineering organization, particularly with large-scale distributed systems or B2B SaaS applications

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the team’s goals, strategy, and roadmap, delivering improvements and innovation to Dagster’s Core APIs and solving key user challenges
• Provide regular 1:1 coaching, manage engineers’ performance, and support their career growth
• Facilitate technical decision-making, drive consensus, and set the technical strategy for the team
• Enable seamless team execution by identifying and removing blockers, maintaining alignment between priorities and goals, and adapting processes as needed
• Oversee external communication and collaboration, ensuring strong relationships with other teams and stakeholders across the company
• Manage the team’s daily operations, including project management, sprint planning, and delivery
• Champion engineering excellence, promoting best practices and raising the bar across the engineering organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining open-source libraries
• Prior experience as a data engineer, analytics engineer, data scientist, or building data pipelines
• Experience working in the data engineering or devtools industry

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Benefits
• Flexible remote work options