ActiveCampaign is seeking an Engineering Manager - Data Infrastructure & Platform to lead and grow our data infrastructure. You won't just be managing a team; you'll be a pivotal, hands-on leader responsible for the entire lifecycle of all company data. You will partner directly with leadership to architect a highly available, performant, and scalable data infrastructure that powers our entire business.
This isn't just about keeping the lights on; it's about shaping the future of our data capabilities. You will foster a culture of operational excellence, security, and velocity, guiding your team to achieve our strategic vision and seeing your contributions directly impact our company's trajectory and product innovation.
On a typical day, you might:
Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary group of talented engineers, focusing on the development and operation of core database, data pipeline, and platform services.Contribute to and execute on the organization’s long-term technical vision for data storage, processing, and retrieval, ensuring security, quality, and clean architecture principles.Drive operational efficiency across all managed systems, including defining and achieving service level objectives (SLOs) for mission-critical databases and data platforms.Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and other Engineering teams to enable new product features and analytical capabilities by optimizing and scaling our data infrastructure.Maintain rigor in system reliability, focusing on automated testing, observability, disaster recovery, and continuous performance improvements for relational and NoSQL databases.Facilitate the professional growth of team members in technical depth, effective cross-functional collaboration, and sound decision-making.Partner with other managers to define and execute the overall platform strategy, leveraging public cloud resources and modern CI/CD practices.
The ideal candidate will bring:
4+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience, including successfully leading teams responsible for 24/7 production systems.Proven experience building, deploying, and scaling high-throughput data and platform applications in a public cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).Expertise across the modern data infrastructure stack, including MySQL, NoSQL (e.g., Cassandra), and event streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka).A demonstrated ability to drive operational rigor and achieve excellent system availability for critical production services.Experience applying DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to managed services.Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical strategies to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
