Manager, Software Engineering

Overview

Engineering Manager to lead the Semantic Layer team in Bengaluru and oversee health, delivery, and growth behind MetricFlow.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers building MetricFlow.
• Own delivery for the Semantic Layer team, including planning, prioritization, execution, and shipping.
• Set technical direction with senior and staff engineers across metric definitions, query compilation, dimensional modeling, and SQL generation.
• Steward MetricFlow as an open-source project, including triage, external PR reviews, and releases.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to ensure MetricFlow integrates with the dbt ecosystem.
• Translate customer and community feedback into a clear, sequenced roadmap with product, design, and developer-relations counterparts.
• Drive engineering excellence for performance, reliability, and observability of metric query execution at scale.

What you'll need

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Built and shipped production software and can discuss architecture and technical tradeoffs.
• SQL fundamentals and familiarity with how analytical query engines and data warehouses execute queries.
• Understanding of systems involving parsing, compilation, or transformation.
• Knowledge of software design principles such as clean APIs, modularity, testability, and backwards compatibility.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and community audiences.
• Experience leading in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.

Nice to have

• Experience leading or contributing to a popular open-source project with external contributors.
• Familiarity with dbt, MetricFlow, LookML, Cube, or other semantic-layer technologies.
• Background in data warehousing internals, query optimization, or analytical SQL dialects.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and release engineering for Python libraries.
• Exposure to building developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or CLIs.

Details

• Role is based in Bengaluru.
• Hands-on leadership role.