Engineering Manager - Streaming Foundations Remote - Americas

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Engineering Manager - Streaming Foundations

Remote - Americas

About the team

The Streaming Foundations team builds and operates streaming infrastructure at Shopify, which includes Shopify’s fleet of Kafka clusters that span the globe, client libraries in Go and Ruby, and services that integrate streaming infrastructure with the rest of Shopify. Our platform powers mission critical event-driven applications across Shopify, such as search, webhooks, and merchant analytics.

  About the role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Streaming Foundations team. You’ll be leading a team of world-class engineers to help scale and operate the streaming infrastructure that is part of the core stack that powers Shopify’s products and services. You will pair with the technical leads to drive the roadmap and balance shipping new platform capabilities, without sacrificing platform resiliency in a challenging environment.

  What you'll do

Build, lead and grow a world class team that manages mission critical infrastructure that the rest of Shopify builds on

Practice extreme ownership: you own your team's outcomes end to end, from roadmap through production operations

Shape the roadmap with teams across Shopify so the platform scales ahead of product needs, not behind them.

Stay hands-on by collaborating with the team through shipping code and joining the on-call rotation

Use and shape how the team uses AI for design, coding, and collaboration

Drive engineering excellence, balancing operational strength with a high shipping cadence.

Communicate with diverse audiences (cross-team RFCs, leadership briefs, non-technical stakeholders)

What you'll bring (we don’t expect you to have done all of this):

Reflexively use AI to accelerate and improve your daily work

Have hands-on experience and understanding of Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, GCP, and/or other streaming

Have prior experience managing a high-performing team that is responsible for data-intensive mission critical infrastructure

Hold a high bar for what great looks like, and push the team to deliver it every time.

Demonstrated experience hiring, growing, and shaping a high-performance engineering team

Stay technical enough to review designs, challenge trade-offs, and ship code alongside the team

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 live pair programming session, come prepared with your own IDE.

Engineering isn't a department at Shopify. It's our DNA. The engineers who thrive here care about the code, the system, and the merchants relying on both. They want hard problems and uncomfortable growth. They find solutions without waiting for permission. They ship weekly. They want commerce to work better for everyone. So does our founder, Tobi, who still codes and still shapes where this thing is going.

They're open source nerds. They pair program because two brains write better code than one. New tools, new models, new approaches. They experiment constantly. Most of what's standard here started as someone hacking on something.

They use AI like a keyboard, reflexively and everywhere, to clear the mundane and make room for thinking. And they work in the open. The fastest way to learn here is to watch someone better than you do the work. If that sounds like you, come build with us.

Infrastructure engineering

Infrastructure Engineers at Shopify build and maintain the systems that handle millions of requests per second and billions of dollars in transactions. At that scale, performance gains matter and weak assumptions surface quickly. Your systems power the experience for millions of entrepreneurs and buyers every minute of every day, including peak events like Black Friday.

Engineers at Shopify spend the majority of their time actually writing code to build and improve infrastructure. You’ll solve problems that don’t exist anywhere else, with challenges that push what’s possible. If that lights you up, come build with us.

At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

Total Rewards

With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.

* Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.

A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.

If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

Your setup

Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.

Benefits

You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependent

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