Senior Engineering Manager – Data Store Platforms

Best Buy


Job Location:

Richfield, MN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 2 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

As a Senior Engineering Manager Data Store Platforms you will lead the Data Store team responsible for building and enabling scalable secure and reliable data platform services across the enterprise. You will guide two squadsPlatform Services and Service Enablementto deliver self-service data capabilities that application teams can adopt and operate confidently. This role combines technical strategy people leadership and operational excellence to accelerate delivery and strengthen production reliability. Youll help shape how teams consume data infrastructure through automation clear ownership and a customer-first mindset.

In this role youll primarily work virtually from home or another nonBest Buy location. However you must live within a drivable distance to our corporate campus in Richfield Minnesota. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.

What youll do
  • Lead and develop a team of engineers delivering cloud-based data platform services and enablement capabilities.
  • Deliver scalable secure and self-service data services that support internal engineering teams.
  • Guide technical design architecture patterns and engineering standards for platform services.
  • Improve developer experience by simplifying service adoption and reducing friction.
  • Partner with operations teams to ensure reliability scalability and operational readiness.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with engineering needs
  • Coach and develop engineers through feedback career growth and performance management.

Basic qualifications
  • 7 years of software or platform engineering experience including 2years leading an engineering team
  • 5 years of experience building and operating AWS-based data platforms including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon ElastiCache or Amazon DocumentDB
  • 3 years of experience guiding technical design architecture or engineering standards for distributed systems or data platforms
  • 2years ofleadership experience including coaching engineers and delivering team outcomes
  • Experience delivering shared platform or infrastructure services used by internal engineering teams

Preferred qualifications
  • 5 years of experience building self-service platforms with automation and standardized service offerings
  • 3 years of experience improving developer experience through onboarding documentation or training
  • 3 years of experience supporting production systems including reliability or incident response practices
  • 3 years of experience using metrics to improve platform performance adoption or efficiency
  • Experience working with AWS NoSQL and distributed database technologies such as Amazon DynamoDB or Amazon Keyspaces
Whats in it for you

Were committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:
  • Competitive pay
  • Great employee discount
  • Financial savings and retirement resources
  • Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation where you live your full-time or part-time employment status and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location employment status salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt) and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles where market norms demand it are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans including eligibility please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits LOA and paid time off please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team youll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life in our stores online and in customers homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. Were committed to being a great place to work where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.


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As a Senior Engineering Manager Data Store Platforms you will lead the Data Store team responsible for building and enabling scalable secure and reliable data platform services across the enterprise. You will guide two squadsPlatform Services and Service Enablementto deliver self-service data capab...

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