Software Engineering Manager

Company: AbbVie
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: December 1, 2025

Job Description:

Company Description AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok . Job Description About the Role The Data Platform team builds and maintains the foundation that powers analytics, ML, and data-driven products. As part of Platform Engineering, our mission is to enable other teams to move faster, safer, and with greater reliability by delivering scalable, observable, and compliant data systems. Were seeking a Manager, Data Platform with strong technical expertise and 2-4 years of leadership experience. Youll own the evolution of the data ecosystem from ingestion and transformation pipelines to data modeling and event-driven systems, ensuring performance and stability at scale. You will mentor engineers while staying hands-on with architecture and implementation. Who You Are Youre a systems-minded leader who blends architectural vision with hands-on execution. You build for scale, reliability, and simplicity. Enabling teams across the organization to deliver trusted, high-quality data with confidence and speed. Qualifications Responsibilities Lead and grow a team of data and software platform engineers, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration. Define and execute the data platform roadmap, covering ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data access. Design, implement, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and data models that support analytics, ML, and operational workloads. Architect and evolve event-driven data systems using Kafka to enable scalable, decoupled pipelines. Maintain and optimize core data tooling such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Fivetran. Ensure system reliability, observability, and performance across development, staging, and production environments. Partner with domain and product engineering teams to define and enforce data contracts, governance, and quality standards. Manage AWS-based infrastructure (MWAA, S3, RDS/Postgres, MSK, Glue, Lambda, ECS/EKS) using Terraform. Collaborate with Platform and Security Engineering on CI/CD, monitoring, and compliance practices. Champion automation, scalability, and cost efficiency within the platform. Qualifications Bachelor's Degree required 8-10 years total experience in data, software, and platform engineering roles. 2-4 years of experience leading or managing technical teams. Proficiency in Python and TypeScript for data pipeline and backend service development. Expertise in PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and replication. Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT frameworks, and event-driven architecture. Hands-on experience with Kafka, Terraform, and AWS data services. Proven success operating and scaling production data systems with high reliability and observability. Additional Information Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law: The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at thetimeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location,andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees. This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms. This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's soleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law. AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

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