Senior Manager, Scientific Data Engineering

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Scientific Data Engineers (SDE) spread across multiple forward deployed engineering squads and drive both technical and organizational excellence. This role is ideal for a leader who can zoom out to see systemic inefficiencies across teams and processes, then roll up their sleeves to fix them — while also building a culture where engineers do their best work.

What You'll Do

• Team & People Leadership

• Supervise and guide SDEs in each squad in planning, implementation, testing, and documentation. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.

• Lead by example - comfortable with diving deeper into organizational and technical challenges and help the team navigate ambiguity and vagueness.

• Manage performance, career development, and org design as teams scale

• Hire, mentor, and retain strong engineering talent; build a pipeline of future technical leaders

• Operational Excellence

• Proactively identify inefficiencies in engineering workflows, processes, and cross-team handoffs — don't wait to be told something is broken

• Design and implement systems (planning cadences, metrics, tooling) that increase velocity and reduce friction across teams

• Establish and track meaningful engineering metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, incident rates, etc.) to guide decisions

• Drive continuous process improvement, balancing speed with sustainability

• Technical & Engineering Excellence

• Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, architecture, testing, and operational reliability across teams

• Partner with tech leads and architects on key technical decisions and trade-offs

• Champion best practices in system design, scalability, and maintainability

• Stay close enough to the technical details to ask sharp questions and unblock teams when needed

• Strategy & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Translate company and product strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps across multiple teams

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and timelines

• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership

• Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for your organization

• Requirements

What We're Looking For

Required

• Overall 10+ years of work experience, including at least 5 years being a manager or leading through other managers

• Proven track record of identifying and resolving operational inefficiencies at scale (process, tooling, or organizational)

• Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence — quality, reliability, and maintainable systems, not just shipping speed

• Experience managing managers and building organizational structure as teams grow

• Strong technical background with the credibility to engage deeply on architecture and design decisions

• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to executive stakeholders

• Experience setting and using engineering metrics to drive decisions and improvements

• Comfortable working in a changing environment and navigating through unclear requirements Nice to Have

• Experience scaling an engineering org through significant growth (e.g., 2x–5x headcount)

• Experience working in startups

• Experience in working with life science data

• Experience with distributed/remote engineering teams

• History of building or maturing engineering processes from scratch (SDLC, release management, incident response)

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

• Identify key engineering operational bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• Engineering teams operate with clear, well-understood processes and reduced cross-team friction
• Engineering teams able to accurately predict engineering effort and deliver high-quality products on time
• Measurable improvement in key engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability)
• Engineering is seen as a trusted, proactive partner by Product and executive leadership

Benefits

• 100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.

• 401K.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

• The salary range for this position is $150K-$230K USD. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity.

• This position isn't eligible for visa sponsorship