PDQ is looking to solve the problem of managing millions of endpoints across thousands of organizations by building and scaling the foundation enabling PDQ Connect, ensuring the platform is secure, reliable, and cost-efficient.
Requirements
- Strong familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Understanding of modern backend stacks (Elixir, Rust, Go, or similar)
- Solid grounding in databases (Postgres, ClickHouse, Elastic, caching layers) and reliability practices
- Comfortable engaging in design reviews, architectural discussions, and incident retrospectives
- 7+ years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years in engineering management
- Proven experience leading teams that included SREs, DBAs, or platform engineers
- Track record of scaling distributed systems and guiding them through major growth milestones
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-disciplinary team (Platform Engineers, SREs, DBAs, Data Engineering)
- Deliver core services that power PDQ Connect and future SaaS products
- Establish frameworks, libraries, and patterns that improve scale, security, and reliability
- Guide platform architecture for multi-tenant SaaS, regionalization, and compliance-readiness
- Own uptime, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response practices in partnership with engineering managers
- Oversee observability, monitoring, alerting, and MTTR reduction strategies
- Partner with QA leadership to embed platform-level testing into release pipelines
Other
- 4-Day Work Week
- 100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
- 100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
- Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals
- Flexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are
