At People Data Labs, we’re committed to democratizing access to high-quality B2B data and 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

• Manage a team of 4-8 platform and backend engineers
• Hire, coach and develop engineers on the team.
• Collaborate with lead engineers and technical PMs to accelerate our ability to develop and experiment with new data platforms and applications so we can explore big bets
• Support the development of our data and application infrastructure to solve distributed computing problems with terabytes of data
• Develop rails that empower developers to translate those bets that pay off into reliable and scalable solutions efficiently to meet the demand growth of new and existing products
• Help lead the recruiting, hiring, and onboarding process to build out our platform team
• Can be hands-on coding when needed within the team, provide technical feedback on code reviews
• Build structures and training to help onboard new teammates and level up direct reports to senior engineers
• Work closely with your direct reports to communicate goals, expectations, and feedback
• Push and encourage your team to achieve their best output and set the pace in achieving our product vision
• Be a key contributor as part of the engineering leadership team in driving engineering initiatives, cultural growth, or architectural changes across the product and engineering teams

Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience managing platform/infrastructure/site reliability teams
• Strong experience with our core technologies (AWS, ElasticSearch, Spark (or similar scaled data processing technologies), and Python)
• Clear experience with Infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g. Pulumi, terraform, cloud formation or similar) (IaC)
• Experience with billing, budgeting and budget forecasting for cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of agile engineering practices
• Strong system design and architecture skills
• Experience managing teams delivering products, managing stakeholders, prioritization, and timelines
• Experience translating technical design documents into projects, milestones, and backlogs.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers
• Experience hiring and recruiting
• Experience managing individual and team performance
• Experience running agile sprints, kanban / backlog grooming (or similar)
• 5+ years experience as a software developer, software, platform, or cloud infrastructure engineer or similar

Our 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

No C2C, 1099, or Contract-to-Hire. Recruiters need not apply.

People Data Labs does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.