
Python
AWS
Engineering Manager, Customer Data Platform
Overview
Postscript gives ecommerce brands the tools they need to run a world-class SMS marketing program.
Job Description
As Engineering Manager for the Customer Data Platform team at Postscript, you will partner with the team’s Principal Engineer & Architect to manage a team of skilled product and data engineers building our CDP from the ground up as part of Postscript’s transformation into an agentic-first company.
Responsibilities
- - Lead a team of engineers building Postscript’s Customer Data Platform from the ground up
- - Collaborate with product managers, data science, business stakeholders, designers, and other engineering teams to plan and execute work
- - Carry out performance management duties for your direct reports via just in time feedback, 1:1s, annual reviews, and continuous improvement opportunities
- - Consistently provide ongoing technical mentorship and general professional development for your direct reports and other engineers at Postscript
- - Establish and continually improve development and team processes that yield maximum efficiency in day-to-day engineering operations
- - Partner with the Principal Engineer & Architect and other technical experts to develop technical roadmaps for data infrastructure, pipeline reliability, and platform scalability
- - Recruit and hire engineers on your team and on other teams, raise and advocate new positions on your team, and directly participate in the screening and evaluation of candidates
- - Lead and participate in culture initiatives that will help us create the best engineering organization in the world
Required Skills
- - A proven career directly managing engineers (ideally 3+ years of leadership experience)
- - Experience building and scaling data platforms, pipelines, or event-driven systems
- - Comfortable partnering with highly technical senior ICs (Staff/Principal engineers) on architecture and technical direction
- - Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, and real-time processing
- - Demonstrated excellence in recruiting and onboarding engineers
- - Clear passion for people, management, and enabling people to do their best work
- - Early stage/high growth SaaS experience
- - Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) including services like Kafka, Postgres, MongoDB, or similar
- - Introduced and maintained systems with a high level of observability (alerting, logging, monitoring)
- - Lead teams that support deeply embedded integrations with external ecommerce and internal platform systems
- - Demonstrated passion for delivering great products (martech SaaS or ecommerce experience preferred)
Benefits
- - Salary range of USD $203,000-$236,000 base plus significant equity regardless of location
- - High growth startup - plenty of room for you to directly impact the company and grow your career!
- - Remote team - work from home (or wherever!)
- - Fun - We’re passionate and enjoy what we do
- - Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
- - Flexible paid time off
- - Health, dental, vision insurance
- - Other great perks
About the company
Engage with customers wherever they are. Postscript helps you build strong customer relationships across the entire buying experience.
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