The Metrics Intake team is responsible for building and maintaining a suite of low-latency, high availability services in Datadog’s metrics intake pipeline. These services transform and enrich petabytes of data per day in data centers around the world. As Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly motivated, growing team of engineers in developing the next generation of these services.

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: 

• Lead and mentor a team of 7+ software engineers.
• Drive improvements in the resilience, availability and efficiency of the team’s services.
• Work with engineering and product leaders to define well-prioritized OKRs and roadmaps to maximize the team’s impact.
• Manage large cross-team projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence. 

Who You Are:

• You have 2+ years of experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship skills. An ideal candidate will have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team efficiency, OKRs, and hiring.
• You’ve built and operated distributed systems in production (ideally with high traffic, i.e. millions of data points per second).
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, including concepts such as scalability, fault tolerance, consistency and concurrency control.
• You are experienced with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts.
• You’re comfortable managing and working with geographically distributed teams.
• You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience

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.

Requisition ID: R8836