Engineering Manager, Data Foundations

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation.

In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams.

Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI.

Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, Open AI, TMobile, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more.

Locations:

Compa headquarters are located in Irvine, California, with growing sites in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. We’re a collaborative, curious, and driven team that values transparency, ownership, and continuous learning and prioritizing in person work where possible.

The Role:

We are looking for an engineering leader to manage Compa’s Data Foundations team. As an engineering manager, you’ll lead and support the team that is responsible for building, shipping, and delivering the products, systems, and product infrastructure that enables Compa to rapidly innovate while maintaining a high bar for data quality.

In this role you will:

• In collaboration with Compa’s Co-founder & CTO and engineering leads on the Data Foundations Team, you will help define and deliver the technical vision for the systems that power the world’s largest software-delivered compensation data platform.

• Own the execution of the the technical vision for Compa’s foundational data systems and product infrastructure.

• As the engineering leader on a cross-functional team, ensure successful delivery, stability, reliability, and internal developer experience supporting peer engineering teams.

• Partner with Compa’s Director of Product on the roadmap for Compa’s data products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years managing engineering teams

• Highly influential spoken and written communication with XFN leaders, technical leaders, and customers

• Track record of building and operating production software systems

• Experience creating new XFN process when it serves the team and deleting process when it is the team serving the process

• Low ego, with an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources

• Effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams

• Gumption — experience working at early-stage startups

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience shipping products that are delivered to enterprise customers

• Experience with systems that handle data where data correctness and quality matter