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INTRODUCTION
Team Introduction: The Data BP team on Data Platform USDS is focused on ensuring the stability, reliability, scalability and risk management of TikTok's US data processing ecosystem. We maintain and operate both batch and streaming pipelines for multiple vertical businesses such as TikTok, TikTok Shop, TikTok Live while simultaneously adhering to strict data compliance standards. We collaborate with a host of internal teams to better enable user experience by delivering high quality at scale. As a Tech Lead Manager in the Data BP team, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of data engineers in maintaining, optimizing and scaling one of the world's largest data platforms that directly supports TikTok app in the US. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership and continuous improvement.
- Oversee project management and cross functional collaboration ensuring high quality delivery across project lifecycle.
- Design and build scalable big data platforms, pipelines and services supporting large-scale batch and real-time data processing.
- Define and drive architecture standards, including data modeling, pipeline design and data quality frameworks to ensure trusted datasets.
- Own end-to-end delivery of data solutions from design through development, testing, deployment and optimization.
- Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Define key metrics and leverage data to measure performance, guide prioritization and support decision making.
- Optimize large-scale data processing systems for performance, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
- Establish strong execution practices, including planning, prioritization and delivery governance across multiple initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy and security standards in all data solutions.
- Communicate technical concepts and data insights effectively to both technical and executive audiences.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms in large scale distributed data systems with at least 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership or engineering management role overseeing technical teams in a cross functional and fast-paced environment.
- Hands on experience in building scalable data solutions with big data processing and distributed storage engines such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Druid, ClickHouse etc.
- Deep understanding of modern data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses and lakehouse patterns.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (or equivalent language) for data processing and analytics.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience optimizing large-scale data systems for performance and efficiency.
- Ability to influence data strategy and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
ABOUT USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale. On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
WHY JOIN US
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA.
JOB INFORMATION
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
INTRODUCTION
Team Introduction: The Data BP team on Data Platform USDS is focused on ensuring the stability, reliability, scalability and risk management of TikTok's US data processing ecosystem. We maintain and operate both batch and streaming pipelines for multiple vertical businesses such as TikTok, TikTok Shop, TikTok Live while simultaneously adhering to strict data compliance standards. We collaborate with a host of internal teams to better enable user experience by delivering high quality at scale. As a Tech Lead Manager in the Data BP team, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of data engineers in maintaining, optimizing and scaling one of the world's largest data platforms that directly supports TikTok app in the US. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership and continuous improvement.
- Oversee project management and cross functional collaboration ensuring high quality delivery across project lifecycle.
- Design and build scalable big data platforms, pipelines and services supporting large-scale batch and real-time data processing.
- Define and drive architecture standards, including data modeling, pipeline design and data quality frameworks to ensure trusted datasets.
- Own end-to-end delivery of data solutions from design through development, testing, deployment and optimization.
- Partner with Product, Analytics, Data Science and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Define key metrics and leverage data to measure performance, guide prioritization and support decision making.
- Optimize large-scale data processing systems for performance, scalability, reliability and cost efficiency.
- Establish strong execution practices, including planning, prioritization and delivery governance across multiple initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy and security standards in all data solutions.
- Communicate technical concepts and data insights effectively to both technical and executive audiences.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade data platforms in large scale distributed data systems with at least 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership or engineering management role overseeing technical teams in a cross functional and fast-paced environment.
- Hands on experience in building scalable data solutions with big data processing and distributed storage engines such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Druid, ClickHouse etc.
- Deep understanding of modern data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses and lakehouse patterns.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (or equivalent language) for data processing and analytics.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience optimizing large-scale data systems for performance and efficiency.
- Ability to influence data strategy and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
ABOUT USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale. On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
WHY JOIN US
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
USDS REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA.
JOB INFORMATION
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in data engineering manager jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience in data engineering with at least 2 years in a management role
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and their managed data services
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining batch and streaming data pipelines at production scale
- Familiarity with modern data stack tools including dbt, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, or equivalent
- Experience with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Data Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify pipeline scale on your resume
Hiring managers want to see the scope of what you've owned. Replace vague bullets with specifics: daily data volume processed, number of engineers managed, and latency improvements shipped. Data engineering manager resumes that lack those anchors read as generic.
Highlight architecture decisions, not just tools
Listings for this role screen for judgment, not just Spark or Kafka experience. Show where you chose one approach over another and why. Candidates who explain tradeoffs in their materials move faster through early screens than those who list tools alone.
Target listings that match your stack depth
Filter openings by the data platform your team has used most, whether that's Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, or a cloud-native stack. Applying where your hands-on depth aligns with the job description increases your callback rate more than applying broadly.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists data engineering manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a cross-functional leadership story
Interviewers at this level probe how you work with data science, product, and platform teams, not just how you run your own squad. Have a concrete example ready where you aligned engineering priorities with a non-engineering stakeholder and delivered a measurable outcome.
Negotiate scope before negotiating anything else
In final-round conversations, clarify team size, on-call expectations, and technical debt load before discussing other terms. Data engineering manager roles vary widely in what 'manager' actually means, and misaligned scope is the top reason early attrition happens in this function.
Data Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most data engineering managers?
The companies hiring the most data engineering managers right now include Amazon, Meta, and LTM Limited, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in companies scaling their analytics or AI infrastructure.
How many data engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 73% of data engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making this one of the more remote-accessible management roles in engineering. Platform engineering and cloud infrastructure sub-areas tend to have the highest share of fully distributed positions.
How do you become a data engineering manager?
Most data engineering managers start as senior data engineers, take ownership of project delivery, then step into informal team-lead responsibilities before moving into a formal manager title. The clearest path is building both deep pipeline expertise and a record of mentoring junior engineers, then seeking a team lead or staff-level role where you can demonstrate cross-functional coordination and hiring involvement.
Can you get hired as a data engineering manager with limited management experience?
Yes, particularly at startups and growth-stage companies where the first data engineering manager hire is often a strong senior engineer willing to grow into the role. The most effective approach is to surface any informal leadership experience, such as onboarding engineers, owning architecture decisions, or running incident reviews, and frame those in your resume and interviews as evidence of managerial readiness.
What does the data engineering manager interview process look like?
Most processes include a recruiter screen, a technical assessment covering pipeline design and system architecture, a people-management interview focused on team structure and conflict resolution, and a cross-functional panel with data science or product stakeholders. Final rounds often include a presentation where you propose an engineering roadmap or critique an existing data architecture, which tests both technical judgment and communication.
Where can I find and apply to data engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to data engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and stack, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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