{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bde22db2c19e2633e46ab89e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bde22db2c19e2633e46ab89e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bde22db2c19e2633e46ab89e","title":"Principal Tech Lead Manager (Data Platform & Reliability Engineering)","description":"Principal Tech Lead Manager - Data Platform & Reliability Engineering\r\nMountain View, California, United States\r\nCompany Overview\r\nID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly log in across websites without creating a new login and verifying again. Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me across federal, state, healthcare, and consumer brand networks. ID.me's technology meets federal standards for consumer authentication and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative.\r\nRole Overview\r\nWe are seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead and scale our Data Platform Team with a heavy emphasis on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Data Reliability . The team owns the high-throughput PostgreSQL database clusters and our in-house Identity Trust Graph Database.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nOwn data infrastructure and reliability: define and evolve technical architecture and operational standards for ID.me's data platform, focusing on performance, scale, and high availability of production PostgreSQL clusters and the graph database.\r\nDrive SRE practices for the data tier: implement robust mechanisms for clustering, replication, failover, disaster recovery, automated provisioning, and zero-downtime migrations.\r\nPerformance engineering and optimization: monitor, optimize, and scale platform services to meet strict requirements for query latency, throughput, and cross-region availability. Guide data model and schema design across relational and graph architectures.\r\nLead engineering execution: drive roadmap delivery, set priorities, remove operational blockers, balance short-term firefighting with long-term platform health and technical debt reduction.\r\nTeam leadership and talent development: recruit, hire, mentor, and retain high-performing database, infrastructure, and platform engineers; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations.\r\nSecurity, governance, and compliance: partner with Security, Privacy, and Compliance engineering to enforce rigorous data governance, data minimization, lineage tracking, and access controls; ensure compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, and GDPR.\r\nAI-forward operations: champion AI-first practices, leveraging AI tooling for automated test coverage, incident analysis, quick-start documentation, and infrastructure script generation.\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).\r\nLeadership experience: 8+ years total software/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering management or tech lead manager capacity leading 5–10+ engineers.\r\n5+ years of experience in data engineering, site reliability, or platform engineering.\r\nPreferred Qualifications\r\nBackground in running or leading a regular software development or feature team.\r\nGraph database experience with Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom graph layers.\r\nExperience with event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines such as Kafka or Kinesis.\r\nExperience working in highly regulated environments handling sensitive personal data.\r\nDeep hands-on experience architecture, managing, tuning, and maintaining highly available production PostgreSQL clusters at scale.\r\nStrong background in data reliability engineering, SRE, or core data platform engineering; familiarity with SLAs/SLOs, automated alerting, and incident response.\r\nExperience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS, and tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.\r\nExceptional cross-functional communication skills.\r\nBenefits\r\nMedical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts.\r\nBasic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, short and long-term disability, accident and critical illness insurance, pet insurance.\r\n401(k) with company match, parental leave, PTO, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, travel assistance program, wellbeing and childcare discounts.\r\nBenefit advocates, learning and development, referral bonus policy.\r\nSalary\r\nMountain View, CA Pay Range: $242,693 – $275,400 USD\r\nEqual Employment Opportunity\r\nID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities. 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Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly log in across websites without creating a new login and verifying again. Over 152 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with ID.me across federal, state, healthcare, and consumer brand networks. ID.me's technology meets federal standards for consumer authentication and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative.\r\nRole Overview\r\nWe are seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead and scale our Data Platform Team with a heavy emphasis on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Data Reliability . The team owns the high-throughput PostgreSQL database clusters and our in-house Identity Trust Graph Database.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nOwn data infrastructure and reliability: define and evolve technical architecture and operational standards for ID.me's data platform, focusing on performance, scale, and high availability of production PostgreSQL clusters and the graph database.\r\nDrive SRE practices for the data tier: implement robust mechanisms for clustering, replication, failover, disaster recovery, automated provisioning, and zero-downtime migrations.\r\nPerformance engineering and optimization: monitor, optimize, and scale platform services to meet strict requirements for query latency, throughput, and cross-region availability. Guide data model and schema design across relational and graph architectures.\r\nLead engineering execution: drive roadmap delivery, set priorities, remove operational blockers, balance short-term firefighting with long-term platform health and technical debt reduction.\r\nTeam leadership and talent development: recruit, hire, mentor, and retain high-performing database, infrastructure, and platform engineers; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations.\r\nSecurity, governance, and compliance: partner with Security, Privacy, and Compliance engineering to enforce rigorous data governance, data minimization, lineage tracking, and access controls; ensure compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, and GDPR.\r\nAI-forward operations: champion AI-first practices, leveraging AI tooling for automated test coverage, incident analysis, quick-start documentation, and infrastructure script generation.\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).\r\nLeadership experience: 8+ years total software/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an engineering management or tech lead manager capacity leading 5–10+ engineers.\r\n5+ years of experience in data engineering, site reliability, or platform engineering.\r\nPreferred Qualifications\r\nBackground in running or leading a regular software development or feature team.\r\nGraph database experience with Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom graph layers.\r\nExperience with event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines such as Kafka or Kinesis.\r\nExperience working in highly regulated environments handling sensitive personal data.\r\nDeep hands-on experience architecture, managing, tuning, and maintaining highly available production PostgreSQL clusters at scale.\r\nStrong background in data reliability engineering, SRE, or core data platform engineering; familiarity with SLAs/SLOs, automated alerting, and incident response.\r\nExperience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably AWS, and tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.\r\nExceptional cross-functional communication skills.\r\nBenefits\r\nMedical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts.\r\nBasic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, short and long-term disability, accident and critical illness insurance, pet insurance.\r\n401(k) with company match, parental leave, PTO, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, travel assistance program, wellbeing and childcare discounts.\r\nBenefit advocates, learning and development, referral bonus policy.\r\nSalary\r\nMountain View, CA Pay Range: $242,693 – $275,400 USD\r\nEqual Employment Opportunity\r\nID.me maintains a work environment free from discrimination. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities. 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