Manager I, Engineering, Coordination Systems Storage

Datadog

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYBoston, MATX
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
37 days ago
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This role pays more than 56% of similar roles. Most pay $170,000–$252,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $211k for comparable roles.

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 64 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 63 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager I, Engineering, Coordination Systems Storage

Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage will lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team, which provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems for internal platforms. The manager will lead a core team of five engineers, overseeing project prioritization, ceremonies, and delegation while remaining hands-on with code for isolated features, remediations, and investigations. Key responsibilities include managing operations, conducting root cause analysis, and promoting operational excellence through gamedays and reliability reviews. The role requires strong distributed systems skills, experience with end-to-end o11y, validation testing, and simulation setup. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in performance optimizations, profiling, and stakeholder management. This position solves critical infrastructure problems by powering runtime configurations like feature flags and complex control planes such as dynamic sharding configuration across the organization.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a core team of five engineers across distributed locations.
  • Manage team ceremonies, project prioritization, and task delegation.
  • Write code for isolated features, small remediations, and investigation follow-ups.
  • Manage active operations, including incident response and root cause analysis.
  • Promote operational excellence by organizing gamedays and conducting operational reviews.
  • Maintain proactive reliability standards for configuration storage and distribution systems.

What we're looking for

  • Possess strong distributed systems skills and the ability to account for various failure modes.
  • Demonstrate experience working on platform teams providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders.
  • Have experience handling significant incidents as both a responder and a follow-up owner.
  • Possess strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
  • Maintain a strong foundation in coding with experience in performance optimizations and profiling.
  • Ability to lead a core team of engineers, including leading ceremonies and delegating projects.
  • Ability to stay hands-on with code for isolated features, small remediations, and investigation follow-ups.
  • Ability to stay actively involved in operations, incidents, and root cause analysis.

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