Data Engineering Manager

Join Relay, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Data Engineering Manager. Lead and grow a senior team of data engineers, own Snowflake cost, drive real-time data and platform enablement, and make platform health visible. Enjoy a competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive health benefits, and a hybrid work environment.

- Lead and grow a senior team of data engineers, providing direction, challenging thinking, and helping the team make decisions. - Own Snowflake cost and develop and execute a plan to reduce costs month over month. - Define and drive Relay's approach to real-time data and platform enablement, including streaming (Kafka) and a Snowflake MCP server.

- You have deep, hands-on production experience with Snowflake and dbt, including building data models - You've owned a production data platform, and ideally you've led meaningful improvements to one, such as cutting cost, improving reliability or adding new capability - You challenge decisions with curiosity, not authority. You ask why before you ask how long, and you can find a path that serves both the engineer's concern and the business deadline - You have at least two years of experience managing engineers, including senior team members with strong technical perspectives and the expertise to back them up - You lead with context. You explain the problem, the metric and the business case before the architecture - You're highly fluent with AI tools, both in how you work and in how you'd guide a team building AI-enabled data capabilities - You care about impact, not noise: You care deeply about the substance of your work. You measure success by results, not recognition, and you let your work speak for itself - You’re energized by complexity and ambiguity: You enjoy tackling problems that don’t come with a playbook. You’re comfortable building from scratch, iterating as you go, and collaborating to shape the best path forward - You own your work: You take pride in your work, follow through on commitments, and feel a deep sense of responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks - Small businesses are why we're here: Relay exists to help them thrive -- and that mission has to resonate with you - You seek out feedback: You see directness as respect, not criticism. You actively seek input, sit with hard truths, and use feedback as fuel for improvement - You build with AI, not just use it: You're actively embedding AI into how you work, pushing what's possible, and bringing your team along with you - You push relentlessly for reinvention: You're always asking "how can this be better?" -- in your work, in your craft, in yourself. Comfort is a signal to push harder, not coast. You'd rather build something better than defend something familiar - You crave autonomy: We trust our team with big challenges and the freedom to solve them. If you’re someone who takes initiative, is comfortable taking risks, and seeks input when needed, you’ll find the freedom here empowering - Experience with: - AWS or GCP - Dagster or another data orchestrator - Terraform - Fivetran and Hightouch - Kafka or other real-time data infrastructure