Engineering Manager, Grammarly
Data Platform
$285-325k
AI-powered writing assistant
Open for applications
AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$285-325k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, infrastructure & governance, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or management role
- Proven experience in building and managing large-scale data platforms, including data ingestion pipelines and infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms and data ecosystems such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Databricks
- Familiarity with modern data engineering and orchestration tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Kafka, Airflow, DBT, Spark)
- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, policy management, and self-serve analytics platforms
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, with a track record of mentoring and developing high-performing teams
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams and aligning with global data and governance strategies
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate and resolve complex technical challenges
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across different locations and time zones
- Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where things change quickly
- Leads by setting well-understood goals and sharing the appropriate level of context for maximum autonomy, but is also profoundly technical and can dive in to help when necessary
- Embodies our EAGER values—ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
- Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust
- Willingness to meet in person for scheduled team collaboration weeks and travel, if necessary, to the hub where the team is based
What the job involves
- To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help us build a world-class data platform
- This role is a unique opportunity to experience all aspects of building complex software systems: contributing to the strategy, defining the architecture, and building and shipping to production
- Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager for our Data Platform team to achieve our ambitious objectives
- This role is crucial in managing and evolving our data infrastructure, engineering, and governance processes to support modern machine learning (ML) use cases, self-serve analytics, and data policy management across the organization
- The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, exceptional leadership abilities, and the capability to mentor and develop a high-performing team that operates across data infrastructure, engineering, and governance
- This person will be integral to the larger data organization, reporting directly to the Director of Data Platform
- They will have the opportunity to influence decisions and the direction of our overall data platform, including data processing, infrastructure, data governance, and analytics engineering
- Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap.
- As the Data Platform team manager, you will lead and mentor a team of data engineers, infrastructure engineers, and data governance specialists, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment focused on professional growth
- You will oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure, scalable, and optimized data platforms, ensuring high performance and reliability
- Your role includes developing and executing strategic roadmaps aligned with business objectives and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and the larger data organization to ensure seamless data integration, governance, and access
- Additionally, you will provide technical leadership and play a pivotal role in resource management and recruiting efforts, driving the team’s success and aligning with the organization’s long-term data strategy
- Build a highly specialized data platform team to support the growing needs and complexity of our product, business, and ML organizations
- Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of a robust data infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability across ingestion, processing, and storage layers
- Lead the development of frameworks and tooling that enable self-serve analytics, policy management, and seamless data governance across the organization
- Ensure data is collected, transformed, and stored efficiently to support real-time, batch processing, and machine learning needs
- Act as a liaison between the Data Platform team and the broader organization, ensuring seamless communication, collaboration, and alignment with global data strategies
- Drive cross-functional meetings and initiatives to represent the Data Platform team’s interests and contribute to the organization’s overall data strategy, ensuring ML and analytics use cases are adequately supported
- Drive the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies and tools that enhance the team’s capabilities and improve the organization’s overall data infrastructure and governance processes
- Implement and enforce data governance policies and practices to ensure data quality, privacy, security, and compliance with organizational standards
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and refine data governance policies that align with business objectives and facilitate discoverability and accessibility of high-quality data
- Monitor and assess the data platform's performance to identify areas for optimization, cost management, and continuous improvement
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the team, emphasizing ownership and innovation
- Cultivate an ownership mindset and culture across product and platform teams by providing necessary metrics to drive informed decisions and continuous improvement
- Set high performance and quality standards, coaching team members to meet them, and mentoring and growing junior and senior IC talent
Our take
From professional writing to everyday correspondence, effective communication is critical. Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps people write clearly and without mistakes, checking spelling, grammar, and other potential pitfalls.
Grammarly was originally launched as a subscription service for students, although the platform has moved into the mainstream in the last decade. It went freemium in 2015 and now works across more than 500,000 applications and websites including email clients, enterprise software, and word processors. Paid tiers give users more tools beyond grammar and spelling checks to include things like word choice, sentence rewrites, tone adjustments, fluency, and formality level.
The company has been profitable since the beginning and now has a valuation of more than $13 billion, placing it among the 10 most valuable startups in the US. The AI writing assistant space is heating up, and Grammarly is hoping to defend its positions against offerings including Scalenut, Ginger and Microsoft's Editor by the release of its SDK, making it far easier to integrate Grammarly into other applications. So far this has been used in over 4,000 products and earned excellent ratings and increased user numbers of Grammarly's service.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2019
$90m
LATE VC
Total funding: $400m
Company benefits
- Support for professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback
- Global, local, and team-specific events and programs
- Catered lunches
- Gym and recreation stipends
- Admission discounts
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity
- Support to set up a home office
- Ample and defined time off
- 401(k) matching
Company values
- Ethical - Be honorable and earn trust by doing the right thing even when no one is watching, every time.
- Adaptable - Embrace change to evolve and succeed, with a positive, problem-solving attitude.
- Gritty - Achieve with passion and perseverance for goals, by doing whatever it takes to get the job done, whenever it’s necessary.
- Empathetic - Treat others as they want to be treated to work well together, by actively listening to put yourself in their shoes and then responding accordingly.
- Remarkable - Always be learning to develop quickly and be exceptional yet humble, by continually seeking out mentors and learning opportunities.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Alex Shevchenko
(Board Member)Studied at Vienna's International University before receiving an MBA from the University of Toronto. Co-founded MyDropBox.com in 2006. The company was bought by Blackboard Inc. three years later. Co-founded Grammarly in 2009.
Max Lytvyn
(Head of Revenue & Board Member)Studied for an MBA at Vanderbilt University before joining Blacboard Inc. as Director of Product Strategy in 2007. Was General Manager and then Partner at Sciworth Labs from 2004 to 2013. Was a Board Member at Uniweb and invested in farmland investment platform FarmTogether.
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