Data Engineering Manager

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting‑edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe and works with utility partners across the globe. We use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize, helping to prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

The role

As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple cross‑functional teams, managing up to ~10 data engineers and GIS specialists. You will support teams working on data processing and pipelines to enable ML‑powered product capabilities, while setting the technical direction and delivery outcomes of your area. Your focus will be on building high‑performing teams and driving results through others rather than hands‑on coding.

Time zone requirement

Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and Eastern North America (NST, AST, EST)

What You Will Do

• Enable our data engineers to become highly productive members of their cross‑functional teams, empowering them to ship high‑quality, reliable data platforms and pipelines on a daily basis.
• Grow the teams by attracting great talent from your network.
• Foster an inclusive and caring culture where everyone can do their best work.
• Provide regular 1:1 coaching and feedback to tap into the potential of all your team members and help them thrive and reach their aspirations.
• Partner strategically with product managers, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure we make the correct data architecture and platform decisions that balance short and long‑term goals.
• Ensure suitability of the data architecture, pipelines, and data models within your domains to enable longer‑term product, analytics, and machine learning goals.
• Work closely with other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology and people, including improving our data engineering practices and introducing capabilities that accelerate data access, reliability, and unlock new product and data‑driven opportunities.

About You

• Passionate about climate.
• Experience working in a high‑growth scaleup environment.
• Product‑mindful and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of data platforms and data‑driven systems.
• At least 2 years experience leading and managing data engineers across multiple teams.
• Experience working with Python, SQL, data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster), data warehouses/lakehouses, Postgres DB, and data pipelines.
• Ability to unblock your team by contributing at a senior engineering level (e.g., reviewing data models, debugging pipelines, guiding architecture). How hands‑on you’ll be will depend on team size and maturity.
• Comfortable working in a build‑it, run‑it environment (GCP, Cloud Run, Grafana, K8s) or similar, with an understanding of data reliability, observability, and pipeline operations.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross‑functional team environment.
• Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends, particularly in data engineering and data infrastructure.

Nice to haves

• Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains is beneficial but not essential.

What You Get

• To be part of truly mission‑driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team that has each other’s back and believes in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly believe in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or disability status.