People Data Labs is hiring a
Engineering Manager, Platform in Worldwide

Summary

People Data Labs is looking for a world-class people manager to lead their platform team in ensuring products can reach enterprise scale and helping the engineering org move faster. Responsibilities include managing a team of 4 platform and backend engineers, handling outages and driving an SRE mindset, developing availability and downtime (SLOs and SLIs), and driving the technical strategy of data and application infrastructure.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience managing platform/infrastructure/site reliability teams
• 5+ years experience as a software developer, software, platform, or cloud infrastructure engineer or similar
• Strong experience with our core technologies (AWS, ElasticSearch, Spark, and Python)
• Clear experience with Infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Pulumi, terraform, cloud formation or similar)
• Strong understanding of agile engineering practices
• Experience managing hybrid environment between DC and AWS; experience managing bare metal / colo infrastructure
• Experience deploying and maintaining self-managed Redis, ElasticSearch, Postgres, in both data center and cloud
• Experience translating company objectives into a roadmap for the team
• Experience translating technical design documents into projects, milestones, and backlogs
• Experience with billing, budgeting and budget forecasting for cloud and data center infrastructure
• Experience managing teams delivering products, managing stakeholders, prioritization, and timelines
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Experience hiring and recruiting
• Experience managing individual and team performance

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
• Develop availability and downtime (SLOs and SLIs) for our products
• Drive the architecture and validation of the resilience of our systems
• 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
• Manage a team of 4 platform and backend engineers
• Help lead the recruiting, hiring, and onboarding process to build out our platform team
• Be a key contributor as part of the engineering leadership team

Benefits

• Stock
• Competitive Salaries
• Unlimited paid time off
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Health, fitness, and office stipends
• The permanent ability to work wherever and however you want