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Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines

Datadog New York, New York Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$192,000-$240,000 USD per year

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Description

Observability Pipelines (OP) is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product. As an Engineering Manager on the team, you'll own people management and engineering execution for one of OP's core missions, spanning areas like intelligence, integrations, streaming insights, cost control, or pipeline capabilities, reliability and scalability.

You'll partner directly with Product to help shape the roadmap, and work closely with your peer EMs and senior ICs to define how OP operates and grows. This is an opportunity to build your management craft while having real influence over the technical direction of a fast-growing product area.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

  • Own people management and engineering execution for a team of 5 engineers
  • Establish a strong operating rhythm for the team, and drive high standards for on-call rotations and incident response, reliability and release quality
  • Partner closely with Product Management on the roadmap, balancing product priorities with technical realities
  • Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers on your team

Who You Are:

  • Experienced managing engineers directly, comfortable owning a team’s operating rhythm end-to-end, from planning through execution and stakeholder communication to incident and on-call ownership
  • Have a technical background in one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, data infrastructure, systems programming or high-throughput data plane environments
  • Strong product sensibility, and a track record for shipping. You enjoy working with Product on strategy and execution

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems
  • Experience with on-premise or customer-installed software concepts

Benefits and Growth:

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000-$240,000 USD

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Skills

Required

  • distributed systems
  • data infrastructure
  • systems programming
  • high-throughput data plane environments

Nice to have

  • high-performance data pipeline systems
  • Rust
  • on-premise software concepts

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datadog/jobs/8378768

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