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Manager - Engineering

Datadog

Job Description

Posted on: 
February 17, 2025

Summary and company overview

Engineering Managers in the Alerting Platform are responsible for the core systems that define and schedule monitors, create alerts, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the end-to-end alerting data across the platform.

This engineering manager will lead the team that owns the canonical storage layer, APIs, and search indexing services. Customers can configure monitors and generate alerts for virtually every product in our unified platform. We maintain our customers' trust by delivering these notifications reliably and displaying accurate and complete data.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow team of varying experience levels, intern to senior engineers, with a focus on impact and career development
  • Work with team members to drive technical direction in architecture decision making and ensuring good review processes
  • Partner extensively across engineering and product teams to understand needs and collaborate on solutions
  • Define and prioritize goals in long term roadmaps with engineering and product leadership
  • Lead by example in handling incidents and on-call responsibilities, ensure reliability is a priority

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • Built and led teams of 4+ engineers
  • Have owned high-scale customer-facing services that are measured on uptime, performance, and correctness
  • Experience with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

NA

Additional commentary

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Summary and company overview

Engineering Managers in the Alerting Platform are responsible for the core systems that define and schedule monitors, create alerts, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the end-to-end alerting data across the platform.

This engineering manager will lead the team that owns the canonical storage layer, APIs, and search indexing services. Customers can configure monitors and generate alerts for virtually every product in our unified platform. We maintain our customers' trust by delivering these notifications reliably and displaying accurate and complete data.

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.

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