The Fabric RPC team is responsible for providing secure, reliable, cost-efficient, performant and easy-to-use service to service communication. The RPC libraries that our team provides are used by every developer in Datadog and they power all our products and services.

We’re looking for an engineering manager to help us lead & expand the efforts of our RPC team. You will own the strategic direction and roadmap for tooling and services that power our networking stack and simplify delivery while increasing velocity of teams across Datadog.

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 cultivate a team of engineers, including performance management and career development.
• Shape and drive the direction of RPC strategy at Datadog.
• Collaborate with our most senior engineers, product managers, and external stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and design the continued development of our platform.
• Plan the most important projects to work on next while striking a delicate balance between investment in reliability/performance, continued development of the platform, and long-term R&D.
• Run OKR process to define and align team’s quarterly goals with the needs of the business and community
• Lead technical and architectural discussions to better understand challenges and problems faced by our team and the engineering community.

Who You Are: 

• You have formally managed for a team of software engineers
• You have experience driving delivery in a fast paced, high growth distributed environment.
• You have significant back end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at scale.
• You are pragmatic when it comes to solutions and technology.
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience.
• Bonus: You have practical experience or a strong understanding of traffic management techniques, such as load balancing, load shedding, circuit breaking and rate limiting - as applied to distributed RPC systems.

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: R13548