Engineering Manager, Destinations

Location: Remote (US or Canada)

Company Stage of Funding: Series D | Data Infrastructure + AI + Customer Data Platform

Office Type: Remote

Salary: $200,000 – $320,000 Base

Equity: Highly Competitive Equity Package

Bonus: Competitive Total Compensation

Visa: H1-B Transfer, TN, and O-1 Sponsorship Available

Company Description

Our client is building the infrastructure layer that enables companies to activate customer data directly from their data warehouse.

The platform powers hundreds of leading companies by connecting data warehouses to downstream systems such as CRMs, advertising platforms, analytics tools, and business applications through a large-scale integration ecosystem.

Having raised over $320M and surpassed $100M ARR, the company has become a category leader at the intersection of customer data infrastructure, AI-powered marketing, and modern data platforms.

The platform powers:

• Customer Data Activation
• Reverse ETL Infrastructure
• Data Sync Pipelines
• API Integrations
• Event-Driven Systems
• Marketing Automation Infrastructure
• AI-Powered Decisioning
• Data Warehouse Connectivity
• Customer Data Platforms
• Enterprise SaaS Workflows

Engineering challenges include:

• Managing 300+ production integrations
• High-scale sync infrastructure
• API reliability and failure handling
• Parallelism and batching optimization
• Rate-limit detection and mitigation
• Distributed systems performance
• Data pipeline scalability
• Customer-facing infrastructure
• Integration lifecycle management
• AI-enabled developer productivity

The company operates at the intersection of modern data infrastructure and AI-powered software, providing engineers and leaders the opportunity to build systems that directly impact thousands of customers and millions of daily workflows.

The culture values:

• Customer Obsession
• Ownership
• Fast Execution
• Technical Excellence
• Pragmatism
• Mentorship
• Curiosity
• Continuous Learning
• Accountability
• High Autonomy

What You Will Do

• Lead the engineering team responsible for 300+ destination integrations
• Manage and mentor a team of approximately 8 software engineers
• Drive execution across customer-facing infrastructure projects
• Balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical contributions
• Prioritize new integrations, enhancements, and platform improvements
• Partner directly with customers and integration partners
• Improve sync speed, reliability, and performance across the platform
• Drive initiatives involving parallelism, batching, and rate-limit optimization
• Help scale integration infrastructure supporting thousands of daily syncs
• Guide architecture and technical decision-making across the team
• Coach engineers and raise the technical execution bar
• Improve engineering processes, planning, and delivery velocity
• Collaborate closely with product, customer success, and leadership teams
• Evaluate technical tradeoffs balancing customer impact and long-term scalability
• Drive adoption of AI tooling to improve engineering productivity
• Contribute to hiring, team development, and organizational growth
• Operate with high ownership and autonomy across critical platform infrastructure
• Represent the team internally and externally when needed

Ideal Candidate Background

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience
• 1–3 years of engineering management experience
• Experience managing and hiring software engineers
• Strong platform engineering experience
• Experience building API integrations and data infrastructure
• Experience working in venture-backed startups during growth stages
• Experience operating in fast-paced engineering organizations
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience with performance optimization and scalability challenges
• Experience building customer-facing infrastructure products
• Strong system design skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable remaining hands-on as an engineering manager
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Ability to balance technical leadership with execution

Strong Signals

Engineering Management Signals

• Managed teams of 5–10 engineers
• Demonstrated success mentoring junior engineers
• Experience hiring and growing engineering teams
• Strong player-coach leadership style
• Proven ability to drive execution through others

Platform Engineering Signals

• Built API integration platforms
• Experience with sync infrastructure
• Data pipeline ownership experience
• Event-driven architecture experience
• Distributed systems expertise
• Platform scalability experience

Startup Signals

• Joined startups during growth stages
• Experience scaling products from Series B through Series D+
• High-growth SaaS experience
• Demonstrated ownership of customer-facing systems
• Strong execution velocity

Bonus Signals

• Reverse ETL experience
• Customer data platform experience
• Marketing technology infrastructure
• AI-powered product experience
• Developer productivity tooling experience
• Large-scale integration ecosystems
• Performance optimization expertise
• Infrastructure supporting enterprise customers

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $200,000 – $320,000
• Highly Competitive Equity Package
• Visa Sponsorship Available
• Fully Remote (US & Canada)
• Significant Ownership and Autonomy
• Opportunity to Lead a Core Product Team
• Direct Customer Impact
• High-Growth Environment
• Category-Leading Product
• Strong Engineering Culture
• Mentorship and Leadership Growth
• Exposure to AI-Powered Product Development

Why Join

This is an opportunity to lead one of the most critical engineering teams at a category-defining data infrastructure company.

Every Hightouch customer relies on destination integrations to activate and operationalize customer data. As the Engineering Manager for Destinations, you'll own the systems that serve as the connective tissue across hundreds of platforms and thousands of customer workflows.

You'll combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, helping engineers grow while solving challenging distributed systems and integration infrastructure problems.

If you enjoy platform engineering, mentoring teams, working directly with customers, and operating in a high-growth environment, this role offers exceptional scope, ownership, and career growth.