Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems - Data Platform

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We need your talent and expertise to help us do something great for over 100 million travellers: make booking stays and journeys more sustainable and straightforward. It involves technical challenges and the latest technology, but that’s ok by you – in fact, it’s exactly what you want!

As an Engineering Manager within our Data Platform team, you’ll lead a team of talented distributed systems engineers responsible for building scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions at the heart of our data ecosystem. You’ll guide the team in managing critical systems like our data emission and ingestion pipelines, processing over 90 billion events daily. With an emphasis on operational excellence, platform resilience, and growth, you’ll have the chance to make a meaningful impact while empowering your team to thrive.

You’ll collaborate closely with other engineering managers, principal engineers, and product owners to shape the technical direction of the team. While you don’t need to code daily, you’ll bring a strong technical foundation, enabling you to guide decisions and earn credibility with the team.

Most roles at Skyscanner are available on a part-time or full-time basis. We work as a distributed team, but in squads of 6 to 12 engineers using Agile/Lean methodologies. We don't need someone who is a master of all the details of Scrum or Kanban, but you will be able to support your team in establishing sustainable flow to deliver on their projects. You will need to work with colleagues in other teams and other subject areas to make sure those projects turn into success for the company. Sometimes this will mean being able to break down shared goals across multiple teams in different locations. Sometimes it will involve influencing your peers' thinking. And sometimes it will mean helping ensure the success of others through mentoring and supporting, enabling them to thrive.

Skyscanner is a hybrid working company. We believe when people meet regularly in person, we are better able to innovate, learn, collaborate, and inspire. We ask people to be in the office on average 8 days per month.

Already a global leader in travel, we want to elevate the way we work to a whole other level. In return, you’ll get meaningful things like medical insurance, headspace subscriptions, a home office allowance, and the option to buy more holiday. You’ll have the opportunity to work from any country for 4 weeks a year, and 30 days in our other global offices. Everything, in other words, to help you relax and give your best.

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