Engineering Manager, Nextdoor

Data Platform

$220-265k

+ Equity Grant. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within the first 3 months of your start date

Spark

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Private social network for neighbours

Open for applications

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Open for applications

$220-265k

+ Equity Grant. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within the first 3 months of your start date

Spark

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Company mission

Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ Years of experience in a high performance distributed systems engineering environment, preferably working on large scale data intensive problems
1+ years of people management, leading technical teams in a fast moving data intensive domain and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
Strong technical background with the ability to set longer term architectural priorities while maintaining the ability to break those priorities into deliverable milestones
Experience operating Spark, Delta Lake and the Databricks platform at scale
Ability to drive a strong sense of ownership across the team, while celebrating wins and learning from experiments
Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
Collaborative, thoughtful, and strategic leadership; comfortable with open communication and giving/receiving constructive feedback respectfully
Empathy and customer obsession for collaborating with other infra and product teams across the company

What the job involves

The Core Platform team focuses on creating a delightful developer experience that empowers engineers to build their features quickly and safely
We build paved roads so that product engineers can focus their efforts on building features that serve our neighbors and drive our business
We create infrastructure that makes the easy things work out of the box and the hard things possible
Providing technical direction and guidance for the evolution of a Data Platform operating at a scale of tens of Petabytes. Today, our environment is primarily Spark hosted on Databricks
Scaling an engineering team with a culture of high technical performance and pragmatic decision making
You’ll build partnerships with key stakeholders, evangelize the use of the platform, and develop a roadmap for future development
Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values

Our take

Nextdoor is a private social network that aims to encourage social interaction between neighbours and make people aware of crime in their area.

The social network has had huge success in the United States and has expanded internationally, with Nextdoor now present in more than 242,000 neighbourhoods around the world.

The company's main competition comes from local Facebook groups, which have become less and less popular due to their comparative lack of functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building for neighborhoods has helped them to build a better product, and their advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

8% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.2)

Trustpilot (2.6)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$134.5m

Dec 2017

$82m

Total funding: $216.5m

Company benefits

Monthly wellness stipend
12 weeks of parental, family or medical leave
Global end of year shutdown
Learning and development stipend
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Prakash Janakiraman

(Advisor & Co-founder)

Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before working in engineering roles at Google and as the co-founder of Fanbase.com

David Weisen

(Engineer & Co-founder)

Worked as a software engineer at Google, Fanbase.com and Open Harbour after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science

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