Data Platform Engineering Manager, Gopuff
$160-180k
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Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
Open for applications
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160-180k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver food, drink, supplies, and essentials to customers' doorsteps, safely and quickly.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be an experienced engineering leader with an interest in both the technical and product management aspects of data engineering
- 5+ years of experience in a data engineering or cloud/infrastructure engineering role
- 3+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience collaborating with functional stakeholders and establishing a roadmap that aligns with business priorities
- Experience with organizational design, team development, hiring, and performance management
- Experience building batch data pipelines using DAG-based tools such as Dagster or Airflow
- Experience deploying applications and service to Kubernetes and using related tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem (i.e. Helm, ArgoCD, Istio)
- Experience implementing DevOps best practices within the data platform, including solutions for CI/CD, data observability, monitoring, and lineage
- Experience in producing and consuming topics to/from Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Azure Event Hubs
- Experience with Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Experience developing real-time data pipelines using frameworks such as Apache Beam, Flink, Storm, Spark Streaming, etc
- Experience with data warehouses, data lakes, and their underlying infrastructure
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, RESTful API development
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Azure, AWS
- Experience with data governance, schema design, and schema evolution
What the job involves
- Gopuff is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead its Data Platform team
- This individual will play a major role in shaping the team’s technical direction, leading the team that enables analytics, data science, and machine learning at scale
- The candidate will bring strong data and cloud engineering expertise and leadership to influence Gopuff-wide data platforms and architecture
- This position will involve a combination of hands-on engineering and people management
- Lead and mentor a team of Data Platform Engineers to develop Gopuff’s central data platform, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture
- Drive continuous improvement within the team by developing practices around professional development, performance management, and hiring
- Provide clear technical direction and support for the team, ensuring the successful execution of data platform projects and initiatives
- Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions
- Develop and promote best practices for data collection, storage, and processing that impact the company-wide data strategy across Gopuff’s data lake and warehouse
- Architect and implement large-scale data platforms that enable analytics, data science, and machine learning in a multi-cloud environment
- Partner with software and analytics engineering teams to establish data contracts and improve data quality at every stage of the data lifecycle
- Manage project timelines, resource allocation, and team performance, ensuring that deliverables are met on schedule and within scope
Our take
Gopuff was an early player in the last-mile delivery space, offering consumers access to a wide range of consumer goods (including food and alcohol) with delivery in ~30 minutes through its network of micro fulfillment centers, from which a fleet of drivers pick up and drop off orders.
Gopuff currently operates in over 1,000 cities and is adding more. The company has made several strategic acquisitions to charge its growth – including UKs Fancy and Dija, and US BevMo!. However, the company faces increased competition on all sides, from Getir (who recently acquired Gorillas), Glovo, and Zapp, as well as high operating costs.
The company has added a range of new capabilities to its platform, launching features to eliminate former pain points by including advance order scheduling, gifting, and in-store pickup. After abandoning plans to IPO in mid-2022, it is focusing back on profitability, though the company has faced some scrutiny over its methods and has had to search further afield for funding at a time when venture capital is scarce. Regardless, Gopuff is well set to remain a major player in the market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2021
$1.5bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2021
$1bn
SERIES H
Total funding: $5.0bn
Company benefits
- Gopuff employee discount
- Career growth opportunities
- Internal rewards programs
- Annual performance appraisal and bonus
- Equity program
Company values
- We put customers first
- We change the game
- We own it
- We win together
Company HQ
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Articles
Leadership
Yakir Gola
(Co-CEO)Founded GoPuff whilst studying at Drexel University.
Rafael Ilishayev
(Co-CEO)Rafael studied at Drexel University with Yakir, where they co-founded Gopuff together in October 2013, and have been co-CEOs since.
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