Senior Engineering Manager, Data

Summary

Join Ava Labs, a world-class blockchain development team, and lead a team of software engineers and product managers. You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling Avalanche’s data infrastructure and developer-facing APIs. This involves overseeing the development of key services, ensuring high performance and reliability, and implementing best practices in data engineering. You will also manage systems for API access and subnet data isolation, partner with other teams, and provide technical mentorship. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, 5+ years of experience in backend or data infrastructure engineering, and 5+ years of engineering leadership experience. Ava Labs offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to be a pioneer in Web3 technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in backend or data infrastructure engineering
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams
• Deep understanding of blockchain systems, including transaction models, consensus mechanisms, and node architecture
• Strong experience designing and maintaining RESTful and streaming APIs with high throughput and low latency requirements
• Expertise in distributed systems, data pipelines, and event-driven architecture
• Proficiency in Golang, with a deep understanding of its concurrency model and ecosystem
• Hands-on experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka or AWS SQS
• Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Aurora) and NoSQL stores (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Familiarity with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Redshift, and data infrastructure best practices
• Strong operational skills, including observability, incident management, and production hardening
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of cross-functional collaboration

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers and product managers responsible for designing, building, and scaling Avalanche’s data infrastructure and developer-facing APIs
• This team owns the systems that ingest, process, and expose real-time and historical blockchain data across Avalanche’s core applications, infrastructure, and partner products
• Drive the architecture and execution of scalable, cloud-native pipelines that index blockchain data from the Avalanche Primary Network and all subnets
• Oversee development of key services including the Glacier API, Metrics API, public RPC endpoints, and Webhooks, which collectively serve hundreds of millions of daily requests
• Ensure high performance, availability, and reliability of APIs used by the Core Wallet, Explorer, Subnet Explorer, Avacloud, and third-party clients
• Lead backend development efforts to make blockchain data queryable and actionable for internal and external consumers
• Implement and enforce best practices in data engineering, including fault-tolerant design, efficient storage schemas, observability, and CI/CD automation
• Manage systems for authenticated and rate-limited API access, subnet-level data isolation, and region-specific hosting
• Own and improve the infrastructure used to onboard and support new subnets, ensuring automated data ingestion and fast time to integration
• Partner cross-functionally with Core, Avacloud, Custody, and other product teams to support evolving data needs and use cases
• Provide technical mentorship, guide architectural decisions, and foster a high-bar engineering culture within the team

Benefits

Salary Range: $225,029 to $267,221