Senior Engineering Manager, SoFi
Data Platform
$172.8-297k
+ Bonus
More information about location
Mobile & online personal finance services
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Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172.8-297k
+ Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years in data engineering, infrastructure, or similar roles
- 5+ years leading engineering teams in cloud-first environments
- Proven experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift — including architecture, security, and optimization
- Strong background in AWS (S3, EMR, Lambda, ECS/EKS) and IaC (Terraform, AWS CDK, Helm)
- Expertise in ingestion/streaming (Kafka, DMS, Flink), orchestration (Airflow, dbt), governance (Great Expectations, Monte Carlo), and security/compliance frameworks
Desirable
- Experience with open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake)
- Familiarity with feature stores, ML pipelines, or vector databases
- Performance engineering expertise (query optimization, caching, workload isolation)
- Track record of driving adoption of governance frameworks and platform modernization at scale
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Core Infrastructure and Services squad
- In this role, you’ll oversee data infrastructure, platform services, and governance initiatives — from integrating diverse data sources into governance tools to evolving the foundational architecture that supports SoFi’s long-term growth
- Automate at Scale — Drive automation and self-service for governance, quality, and metadata to improve velocity and reduce operational overhead
- Streamline Ingestion — Unify data ingestion across real-time, batch, and CDC patterns for reliable, consistent entry into the platform
- Future-Proof — Design and evolve platform architecture for scalability, flexibility, and long-term growth
- Build Trust — Implement monitoring, validation, and quality frameworks to ensure data is accurate, fresh, and compliant
- Enhance Discovery — Improve metadata, lineage, and visibility so teams can find and understand data quickly
- Integrate sources like Postgres, S3, and DynamoDB into governance tools (Alation, Collibra)
- Define and enforce governance policies in partnership with stakeholders
- Lead the development of metadata management and data quality capabilities
- Manage SoFi’s data infrastructure (SDP), ensuring high availability and scalability
- Oversee Terraform Cloud for IaC automation
- Handle Snowflake RBAC and enforce secure data access
- Monitor Snowflake & AWS costs, implementing optimization strategies
- Mentor engineers, promote best practices, and foster a culture of learning and innovation
- Partner cross-functionally with product, ML, analytics, and compliance teams
- Develop a 3–5 year roadmap for data platform evolution
- Evaluate and integrate SaaS and open-source solutions
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets them apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster, and strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral and continues to strengthen its offering.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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