Description
Husky is a distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of Datadog's Event Platform, powering dozens of popular products.
As an Engineering Manager on Husky, you will lead one of a few closely collaborating teams that work directly on Husky's internals, owning the full lifecycle of events stored by the Event Platform.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of software engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact
- Be a technical leader, reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests
- Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases and prioritize new platform capabilities
- Share on-call responsibilities and ensure operational excellence
- Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one
Requirements:
- Previous experience leading software engineering teams and delivering high-quality software products
- Hands-on experience with Java or Go and a background in distributed systems
- Experience with being on-call, leading incident responses, and driving remediation efforts
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
Benefits:
- New hire stock equity and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous professional development and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
- Inclusive company culture and access to mental health benefits