About the role
We’re looking for an Engineering Program Manager to join the Shopify Data Platform Engineering team to help us shape the future of Data Platform Engineering, as well as help guide our next program manager hires.
Our team builds and maintains Shopify’s data infrastructure through tools, software, and data engineering. We make sure that Shopify, its merchants, partners, and internal teams have the data they need when and where they need it most.
You’ll help us develop, build and deliver better ways to distribute, use, and make decisions with data across our growing organization. You’ll be working in a collaborative environment with highly technical individuals and teams, with stakeholders that are versed in data and engineering practices and principles. This means getting deep into understanding data, engineering, and working with product management.
A Day in the Life of a Shopify Engineering Program Manager :
Developing a deep understanding of our team's technical capacity and goals
Managing relationships with our stakeholders/internal customers; customer and stakeholder management will be a key component of this role
Navigating projects between Data Platform Engineering and other teams across Shopify, which requires building high-trust relationships on both sides
Ensuring projects are not developed or delivered in isolation from each other, but rather as complementary projects with clear scopes that contribute to the larger goals of Data Platform Engineering
Qualifications
Interested in applying? You should have experience with one or more of the following (don’t stress, we are not expecting experience in all of the following!):
Delivering cross-team and cross-organization initiatives through project management and process design
Working with and managing a pipeline of customers
Owning and managing relationships with external vendors
Partnering with highly technical teams and individuals
Passion for building roadmaps and leading teams towards impactful results
Working understanding of how to build scalable and reliable systems
A background in software development or a Computer Science/Software Engineering education
It’d be great if you have:
Experience with a variety of big data technologies/concepts including: Flink, DBT, Kafka, Data Flow, Presto
Experience with a variety of technologies, including: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, or other PaaS technologies
Experience with data reporting tools, including: Tableau, Mode, Superset, Streamlit or others
(Note: if some of this tech is new to you, that's okay! We realise that not everyone has worked with this stack before and provide opportunities for learning as you go.)
Closing date: Friday, August 14th at noon EST
Successful candidates can expect to hear back from us by Friday, August 21st at noon EST
At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our 2020 Sustainability Report to learn more about Shopify's commitments.
How we hire
At Shopify, we put a lot of care and time into who we hire. We believe that in order to build the best products, we need to build high impact teams. Our recruitment process centres around what we call the Life Story interview, a conversational-style interview where we get to learn more about you.