Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries, we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US, Australia, Current Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. We are well-funded, ranked #1 on G2, growing rapidly, and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work® certification and on Fortune magazine's Best Small Workplaces™ List.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Data & Analytics Manager who grows high-impact teams that balance efficiency with excellence, value autonomy and creativity, and thrive in a collaborative, inclusive environment.

Team vision: “Enable rapid innovation through a unified data platform”

Lead a high-performing, healthy team

- Coach and grow engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, and thoughtful development plans.
- Create an environment where engineers can do focused work, collaborate effectively, and keep improving—without heroics or burnout.
- Help build a strong team culture that values autonomy, accountability, and craftsmanship.
- Help the team thoughtfully adopt AI-assisted tooling across the software delivery lifecycle to improve developer productivity and code quality.
- Lead by example in using AI tools where they add real leverage, and help engineers understand when AI accelerates work—and when human judgment matters most.

Deliver meaningful outcomes in Scrum

- Partner with Product and Design to translate goals into a clear plan,



then guide the team through execution in a Scrum cadence (planning, delivery, review, retro).
- Manage a multi-million dollar product, growing our top and bottom line while improving platform stability
- Balance new work, enhancements, bugs, maintenance, and technical debt with sound judgment and transparent trade-offs.
- Improve delivery quality and speed over time by reducing friction, improving clarity, and continuously strengthening engineering practices.

Raise the bar for engineering excellence

- Champion strong development practices: code reviews that teach, testing discipline, pragmatic documentation, and maintainable implementations.
- Encourage “analytical” thinking - creatively solving data problems for our customers is at the heart of this role.
- Champion “you build it, you own it” - Deliver product while balancing technical health

Build operational strength (without creating toil)

- Help the team build healthy on-call and operational practices, including ownership, runbooks, sensible alerting, and effective incident follow-up.
- Lead blameless incident reviews focused on learning and systemic improvements.
- Improve observability and system health so the team can confidently ship and support the Core product over time.



(This role may include on‑call participation in the future.)

Be a strong cross-team partner

- Collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, and Support.
- Communicate clearly across time zones and contexts—making decisions understandable and durable.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success typically means:

- Your engineers are growing in skill, confidence, and ownership—and they want to stay on your team.
- The team ships consistently with high quality, and reliability improves quarter over quarter.
- Technical decisions make the analytics product easier to evolve (not harder).
- Cross-functional partners trust your team because expectations, trade-offs, and delivery are clear.
- Data Warehousing: Databricks and Snowflake.
- ELT: Fivetran, DLT, DBT

About You-- What Sets You Apart

- Previously a Senior+ IC before moving into management (preferably as a data engineer or analytics engineer) .
- 2+ years experience in Engineering Management.
- Proven record leading teams to improve quality and speed through technical + process change.
- Depth in distributed systems and data integrity at scale.
- Skill planning and delivering sprints with Product and Tech Leads, balancing new work, enhancements, bugs, and maintenance.
- Experience in large scale, multi-cloud data warehousing migrations.
- Degree in CS or equivalent experience.
- Plus if you have accounting domain experience.

Why Work at Karbon?

- Gain global experience across the USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Canada and the Philippines
- 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a yea

📌 Engineering Manager, Data (Sydney)
🏢 Karbon
📍 Sydney