The Cloud Platforms - Observability organization helps to build the Infrastructure Monitoring products at Datadog. We serve as the API to the Clouds for all of Datadog and our customers, and act as the ingestion point for all telemetry data from Cloud or SaaS providers. We partner with Cloud Providers to develop features and integrations that benefit our mutual customers. As an Engineering Manager in this organization, you’ll lead a highly motivated team of engineers that build and maintain a load bearing system at Datadog and generate value for our customers, company and industry partners.

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 4+ 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 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 worked with cloud technologies in production and managed teams that operate distributed systems in production
• You develop relationships and partnerships naturally within your organization and across the industry
• You have a strong understanding of distributed systems architecture
• You are experienced with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts.
• You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

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.

Requisition ID: R10472