Senior Engineering Manager - Data Store Platforms

Best Buy

Minneapolis, Minnesota
17 days ago

Highlights

Numbers & Facts

Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Industry	Retail
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1966
Website	http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/

Description

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 squads-Platform Services and Service Enablement-to 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. You'll help shape how teams consume data infrastructure through automation, clear ownership, and a customer-first mindset.

In this role, you'll primarily work virtually from home or another non‑Best 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 you'll 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 2 years 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
2 years of leadership 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

What's in it for you

We're 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 achie

About Company

Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.