Engineering Manager, People Data Labs
Platform
Offers stock options
B2B data provider for industry leading platforms
Job no longer available
B2B data provider for industry leading platforms
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Offers stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To do the heavy lifting of fata collection and standardization so our customers can focus on building and scaling innovative, compliant data solutions.
Role
Who you are
- 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 (or similar scaled data processing technologies), and Python)
- Clear experience with Infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g. Pulumi, terraform, cloud formation or similar) (IaC)
- Strong understanding of agile engineering practices
- Strong system design and architecture skills
- 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
- Experience running agile sprints, kanban / backlog grooming (or similar)
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
The increasing appetite of businesses to gain a competitive advantage over the competition from the use of data, coupled with the challenges of managing an increasingly complex and heterogeneous data landscape, has created the right conditions for the DaaS market to grow rapidly.
People Data Labs builds APIs that enable developers, engineers, and data scientists to build data-driven products using B2B data records. Their data powers internal and customer-facing digital products that can drive revenue and increase efficiency, and is used by enterprise businesses as well as tech start-ups. Their clients include Kleiner Perkins, BreezyHR, SugarCRM, 6Sense, Lunchclub, and Gem.
People Data Labs is focused on hiring engineering and product professionals as part of an ongoing push into critical verticals. This includes offerings in the fintech space, where they plan to expand their data products to support fraud detection, risk mitigation, and insurance underwriting. The company also plan to expand their offerings in firmographic data via insights and company data products for investment research, sales planning, and investor due diligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
43% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Oct 2018
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.3m
Company benefits
- Stock
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance
- Health, fitness, and office stipends
- The permanent ability to work wherever and however you want
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ben Eisenberg
(CEO)Ben joined PDL in 2017 as a Technical Analyst, since then he has held a number of roles and became CEO in 2024.
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