Data Engineering Manager Jobs

In the time it takes you to read this job ad, around 100 new Linkers will have signed up to Linktree. Since 2020, Linktree has from 4M to 35M+ accounts, scaling from 20 to over 200 team members, and bringing a marketplace , new brand , and iOS and Android apps to Linkers along the way.

To learn more about how we work (and get the 101 on our amazing, flexible benefits offering), keep reading.

The Role

As a Data Engineering Manager at Linktree, you will be responsible for managing a team of Data and Software Engineers; guiding, supporting and enabling the individuals in your team to do the best work of their careers.

The Data Platform team is at the forefront of transforming the way Linktree leverages data, working closely with the insights, analytics engineering, product and marketing teams to become truly data driven.

What You Will Do

• In line with our company strategy of high performance, this leader will cultivate clarity for the team by setting clear expectations, developing performance and growing the team over time.
• Continue leading the transformation to make data a first-class citizen in software development at Linktree. This includes providing other teams with the self-service capabilities to ingest, transform, consume and integrate data with other systems for both production and analytics use-cases.
• Develop and implement the strategy for the Data Platform in close collaboration with other data and engineering leaders.
• Partner with security and legal domain experts to ensure guardrails for data governance.
• Evangelise best data practices and drive adoption across the company.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience in relevant engineering disciplines to architect data-driven systems and platforms at scale including, but not limited to, instrumentation at the source, event ingestion, event brokers, data warehouses, pipelines and data integration patterns with third party systems, such as an experimentation platform, product analytics and marketing tooling. Having worked with distributed, event-driven systems is a plus.
• A platform mindset. Our Data Platform team does not do repetitive data transformation and integration jobs for others. The team builds the infrastructure that allows Linktree to perform these tasks at scale by enabling all teams to perform data-related jobs themselves.
• Experience managing, scaling and mentoring teams in a high growth tech environment, preferably a product led company.
• Strong levels of influence. This role involves transforming the way our teams operate, particularly cross-functional product teams, to make data the center of decision making.

$162,435 - $243,653 a year

Where & How We Work

We are a global, diverse group across age, gender, and race and offer a truly flexible and family friendly work environment. Kids, pets, and the occasional delivery person are all actively encouraged to appear on our Zoom screens. All of us at Linktree work either fully remote or a hybrid "remote, but in-office sometimes" approach and that will continue even when COVID is behind us.

We currently have offices in Melbourne, Sydney and LA is coming next, but our team is spread across Australia, United States, and New Zealand. Growing from 20 people in early 2020, to 50 in 2021 and over 200 in 2023, Linktree is still growing!

Being globally distributed doesn't mean working to one timezone and we offer autonomy and flexibility in how you structure your days and weeks. There will be the need for some collaboration outside of a "normal" 9-5 being a global company, but we aim to work asynchronously where possible.

Our Culture & Benefits

Linktree's company culture and values are based around collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and flexibility. Those are all nice words but to give you some more specific examples:

- We recognize that our team are individually unique and have designed our benefits with this in mind. Each person has an annual allowance of $4,900 USD (pre-tax, pro-rata based on start date) to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, green energy - the choice is theirs!

- We provide top-flight medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance - we cover 100% of your monthly premiums (and 80% for your dependents).

- Employee Stock Option Program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success as we go further together.

The Linktree Story

We created and defined the “link in bio” category in 2016 to solve a common pain point for creators, brands and businesses: they had no way to consolidate their content and digital identities. The internet was becoming increasingly fragmented, so we launched a simple tool that allows anyone to manage their corner of the digital universe. We’re giving our users control of how the world discovers them – because why should you be defined by only one link?

Fast forward to 2023: Linktree is now used by some of the world’s biggest brands including TikTok, The LA Clippers, The UN Environmental Program, Manchester United, and Wear it Purple, as well as celebrities including Selena Gomez, Alicia Keys, Shawn Mendes, and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

With close to 40,000 signups per day (and no sign of stopping), we’re on a mission to empower anyone to curate and grow their digital universe – come join us for this ride!

P.S. If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out just yet. We’ve seen the research that people from underrepresented backgrounds tend to only apply when the checklist is all ticks. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!

At Linktree, we celebrate and support everyone’s perspective and background, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging, because we believe in going further together. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience.