Airwallex

Senior Manager, Data Platform - T0

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Location as listed by the employer: “US - San Francisco”
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About this role

Airwallex is hiring for a Senior Manager, Data Platform - T0 role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering, including significant experience leading engineering teams.
  • Proven experience managing and developing senior engineers and technical leads and building strong, autonomous teams.
  • Deep expertise in data platforms, distributed systems, data modeling, and production data pipelines.
  • Strong experience with Python and SQL, plus hands-on experience with Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, dbt, and modern lakehouse architectures.
  • Experience building reliable ingestion systems with large-scale backfills, incremental processing, checkpointing, rate-limit handling, idempotency, and failure recovery.
  • Strong understanding of streaming and event-driven architectures, including Kafka, CDC, and micro-batching.
  • Experience with data orchestration platforms such as Dagster and designing for freshness, partitioning, and incremental computation.
  • Experience optimizing PostgreSQL and analytical workloads for performance and cost.

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