Engineering Manager

About The Role
Imagine powering the data backbone for millions of merchants and buyers worldwide. As the leader of the 'Materialization and CDC Platform' team, you'll be responsible for building and serving real-time views into Shopify's data spread across hundreds of instances and diverse technologies. This newly formed team brings two critical offerings together under one leader, focusing on building and serving materialized views and providing change notification streams across critical datasets. This is more than just managing a team; it's an opportunity to architect and scale a foundational platform that will define how Shopify leverages data for years to come.
Why You'll Love Working at Shopify:
Empowerment at Scale: Make impactful decisions that shape the future of commerce for millions of merchants worldwide.
Innovative Environment: Lead teams working on cutting-edge projects, from AI-driven translation tools to resilient data platforms and streaming services.
Growth Opportunities: Cultivate your leadership skills while mentoring engineers and driving their professional development.
Community and Culture: Be part of a diverse and inclusive work environment that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Key Responsibilities:
Own and deliver materialization and CDC infrastructure solutions for critical Merchant/Buyer-facing products.
Build and manage a team of engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and performance management.
Partner with senior leadership and stakeholders to drive infrastructure product strategy and roadmap.
Identify, diagnose, and make decisions to unblock teams and maintain momentum.
Be an active team member, diving into details, contributing hands-on, and shaping ongoing work.
Influence and contribute to open-source communities to meet Shopify's evolving needs.
What You Bring:
Experience with large-scale distributed data systems or event-driven architecture, particularly in critical product environments.
Proven leadership in managing software engineers across various levels.
Strong communicator and collaborator to drive strategy and roadmap with leadership and stakeholders.
Problem-solving ability to resolve complex challenges and unblock teams.
Technical acumen with active contributions to projects, particularly in open-source ecosystems like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Flink, and Debezium.
Ready to define Shopify's data future? If you are excited about leading high-performing teams and making a significant impact, we want to hear from you Join us in our mission to make commerce better for everyone.
At Shopify, we pride ourselves on moving quickly—not just in shipping, but in our hiring process as well. If you're ready to apply, please be prepared to interview with us within the week. Our goal is to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days. You will be expected to complete a pair programming interview, using your own IDE.
This role may require on-call work
About Shopify
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we've grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people's lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About You
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
Bring critical thought and opinion
Use AI tools reflexively as part of your fundamental workflow
Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
Work digital-first for your daily work
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