Own the technical direction of Justworks' core data platform — pipelines, infrastructure, orchestration, and the standards that keep it trustworthy
Lead architectural decisions on cloud data infrastructure, balancing scalability, cost, reliability, and security
Drive operational excellence across the platform — observability, data quality, cost optimization, incident management, and SLAs
Set and enforce engineering standards — testing, documentation, CI/CD, and code review best practices
Maintain and evolve infrastructure as code, ensuring the platform is auditable, repeatable, and resilient
Lead and develop a team of data engineers, including direct line managers and individual contributors at various levels
Recruit and hire high-caliber data engineers as the platform team grows
Create an environment where engineers develop their skills, take ownership, and do the best work of their careers
Collaborate with other engineering teams to align on data contracts, security, compliance, and shared infrastructure
Drive planning processes that connect platform priorities to DNA's overall strategy and enterprise OKRs How You Will Do Your Work
Influence and Leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking across the organization.
Requirements
At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community.
Technology, Data & AI About The Team
The Data & Analytics team is Justworks' data and AI center of excellence — a connected set of functions spanning business intelligence, data science, analytics engineering, platform data/ML engineering and AI builders.
You think in systems - how pipelines, orchestration, governance, and observability connect to produce a trustworthy platform - and you know how to build a team that operates with both craft and urgency.
experience with modern PaaS data stack technologies - Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, Estuary - and you've seen what works and what doesn't at scale.
Snowflake is core to how we operate and you should have depth there.
experience in data engineering, with at least 5 years working hands-on with modern PaaS data stack technologies (Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, Estuary, or equivalent)
Deep Snowflake expertise - schema design, query optimization, cost governance, data sharing, and performance tuning at scale
experience managing managers or leading a multi-team engineering organization
Experience leading a distributed engineering team across multiple workstreams and delivery tracks
Deep proficiency in SQL and Python; recognized by peers for technical rigor
Strong expertise with AWS services (S3, Lambda, Fargate, Redshift, Kinesis) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) Strong
experience with data governance, security, and compliance in a production environment
Point of view on how AI is changing data platform engineering — both in how the team works and what the platform enables Nice to have •
Experience building data platforms that support ML/AI workloads (feature stores, model pipelines, vector stores)
Background in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment (fintech, HR tech, healthcare) •
Experience with streaming/CDC technologies (Estuary, Kafka, Debezium) Technologies Used
5+ years of engineering management experience, including
Benefits
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $240,000.00 - $310,000.00 per year. #LI-DG2 #LI-Hybrid
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and
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benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks .
If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com .
Additional details
We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues.
If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values
If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Department
We've grown significantly over the last several years and continue to build momentum across the business, leveling up maturity in how we deliver insights, govern data, and enable the company to make better decisions.
You'll find a highly collaborative & diverse group motivated by craft, shared learning, and a genuine commitment to growing our impact for customers while evolving how we work together for our people. Come build with us!
The Data Platform Engineering team sits at the core of this foundation, owning the pipelines, platform infrastructure, and reliability that every other DNA function depends on. Who You Are
experience building and operating modern data platforms.
You've led teams through scale — evolving architecture, improving reliability, and making hard tradeoffs between speed, cost, and quality.