Saildrone · 2 months ago
Tech Lead Manager - Data
Hybrid in Alameda, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$189K/yr - $243K/yr
8+ years expSaildrone builds autonomous systems that dominate the world’s oceans, providing real-time intelligence for maritime operations. They are seeking a Tech Lead Manager in Data to guide their data engineering team in developing reliable data pipelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams to derive insights from large datasets.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataDronesManufacturingMarine Technology
No H1B
Responsibilities
Work with your team, engineering leaders, and other technical/non-technical stakeholders to develop a highly reliable, low latency data pipeline, while ensuring dataset quality
Utilize your engineering management skills to execute along a roadmap defined by business objectives, clarifying requirements, and informed by rigorous engineering design
Work with our technical program management team to align work to schedules and ensure delivery
Communicate in a friendly, supportive manner with engineers or other stakeholders, ensuring alignment and advocating for effective solutions
Engage with cross-functional teams of product managers, technical program managers, technical leads, software engineers and infrastructure engineers
Mentor and facilitate career development for individual contributors
Drive and support a culture of rigorous design and test around software features
Qualification
Required
8+ years of relevant data engineering software development
1+ years people management experience, including technical team leadership, scheduling, and resource planning
Expertise in relational databases (Postgres, AWS Aurora, PostGIS)
Working knowledge of data warehousing solutions (Athena/Presto, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, or Vertica)
Familiar with Argo, Dagster, Airflow, or Luigi workflow orchestration engines
Able to provide clear priorities, and be hands on as needed to ensure successful delivery
Knowledge of software processes to produce sustainable and maintainable code
Good verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
Experience working with time series, geospatial, geo-temporal, or map-tile data would be a huge bonus
Experience with data from drones or robots, such as those from ROS-based systems, would also be very helpful
Expertise in Python or NodeJS programming languages
Familiar with Parquet or Protobuf data file formats
Experience with streaming technologies such Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Flink
Experience with serverless functions, such as AWS Lambda
NoSQL experience - DynamoDB, Redis, Influx, Timescale
Knowledge of visualization tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, Streamlit
Experience with developing and deploying distributed services with Docker
Built data pipelines for Machine Learning applications
Benefits
Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick time and parental leave
Comprehensive and competitive medical, dental and vision plans, and HSA with employer matching.
Company sponsored life insurance
Stock Options
Annual stipend for continued learning and development
Quarterly company BBQs at our Alameda HQ (bring your friends and family!)
Free Bay Area Public Transportation via AlamedaTMA with the BayPass Clipper Card
Company
Saildrone
Saildrone is a maritime company that enables navies, governments, and organizations to obtain data required to monitor the maritime domain.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$299.5MKey Investors
Lockheed MartinExport and Investment FundBond
2025-10-29Corporate Round· $50M
2025-05-13Series C· $60M
2021-10-18Series C· $100M
Leadership Team
Richard Jenkins
Founder & CEO
John Mustin
President
Recent News
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