Senior Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Checkr is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the People Data team, responsible for the core data at Checkr: ingesting, storing, and processing billions of records. The manager will shape the technical strategy and oversee project delivery for high-impact, at-scale systems advancing architecture for Checkr's next generation of product offerings — impacting millions of people every year. Based in Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA (hybrid, 3+ days/week in-office). Salary: $269,000–$316,000 (SF) / $227,000–$267,000 (Denver).

• 5+ years as an engineering manager and 5+ years as an engineer. • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. • Unparalleled bar for quality and operational excellence. • Experience working on big data products at scale. • AI-first mindset. • Experience designing and maintaining real-time and batch processing data pipelines serving billions of data points. • Experience normalizing and cleansing data across a medallion lakehouse architecture. • Experience with systems that rely on high-volume, low-latency messaging infrastructure (e.g., Kafka). • Highly tolerant production systems with streamlined operations (data lineage, logging, telemetry, alerting). • Familiarity with Cloud/big data tooling: AWS EMR, Databricks, Spark.