Anyscale
Engineering Manager, Ray Data
$267K–$375K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers.
About the job
Leads the engineering team responsible for Ray Data, setting its open-source roadmap and guiding development of a distributed data processing engine for AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction, manage the roadmap, and drive projects from design through release.
- Hire, coach, and lead engineers while overseeing planning, prioritization, on-call, and release quality.
- Contribute to technical design and code review, and work with open-source contributors and partner teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years directly managing engineers.
- Deep technical knowledge of distributed and data-intensive systems.
- Hands-on depth in Python and performance-sensitive systems code.
- Experience building and managing distributed teams; strong execution, prioritization, coaching, and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience leading or maintaining a widely used open-source project.
- Experience with Ray, Spark, Flink, Beam, Apache Arrow, Iceberg, Delta Lake, GPU workloads, or production data/ML infrastructure.
Pay
$267,000 - $375,000 USD base salary
Tools
Ray Data, Python, Ray Train, vLLM, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Lance
AI focus
Leads development of data processing capabilities for AI workloads, including LLM and multimodal batch inference, distributed training data loading, and large-scale preprocessing.
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