About Us
We are the provider of high-quality B2B people and company data. At People Data Labs, we’re leading the emerging DaaS economy. We empower developers, engineers, and data scientists to create innovative, compliant data products at scale with our clean, easy-to-use datasets of resume, company, location, and education data consumed through our suite of APIs.
PDL is an innovative, fast-growing, global team backed by world-class investors, including Craft Ventures, Flex Capital, and Founders Fund. We scour the world for people hungry to improve, curious about how things work, and willing to challenge the status quo to build something new and better.
About The Role
We’re looking for a world-class people manager to lead our platform team in helping our engineering org move faster and faster every day and ensuring our products can reach enterprise scale.
Roles and Responsibilities
Ensure developers for our products and services have the rails and tools they need to keep systems reliable, performant, and cost-effective
Handle outages, post-mortem, and remediation practices to prevent issues from reoccurring
Bootstrap and drive an SRE mindset - developing rails for the team and the broader engineering organization to build and deliver reliable products
Develop availability and downtime (SLOs and SLIs) for our products
Drive the architecture and validation of the resilience of our systems
Using past experience in a variety of SDLC approaches to drive improvements as necessary to keep up with growth
Managing the foundational elements of our live environment, including AWS accounts, networks, and service organization
Supporting security stakeholders in continuously improving our security posture
Drive the technical strategy of our data and application infrastructure to support distributed computing problems and serve terabyte-scale data to our customers
Collaborate with lead engineers and product managers to accelerate our ability to develop and experiment with new data platforms and applications so we can explore big bets
Align business objectives to team objectives to ensure each team member is delivering impactful work
Experience prioritizing team’s roadmap across competing stakeholder requirements and resources
Be hands-on coding when needed within the team, provide technical feedback on code reviews
Manage and drive the performance of our Platform team
Manage a team of 4 platform and backend engineers
Help lead the recruiting, hiring, and onboarding process to build out our platform team
Work closely with your direct reports to communicate goals and expectations, while delivering constructive feedback
Push and encourage your team to achieve their best output and set the pace in achieving our technical vision
Be a key contributor as part of the engineering leadership team
In defining and driving engineering initiatives, cultural growth, or architectural changes across the product and engineering teams
Translating company and team objectives into a roadmap for the team. Able to develop and maintain roadmap for the team with a 1-2 year vision
Be able to identify areas of inefficient spend and lead initiatives working with engineering teams to identify areas of excess spend or opportunities
Being able to consult with engineering teams to help estimate and forecast on architectural or application additions and changes
Be a bridge between finance and engineering to understand and manage infrastructure spend
Skills and Experience
Technical Expertise
Leadership Expertise
Managerial Expertise
Our Benefits
No C2C, 1099, or Contract-to-Hire. Recruiters need not apply.
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