Engineering Manager I

Datadog

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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.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager I

Manager I, Engineering - Husky leads a team focused on the internals of Husky, a distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store that powers core products like Logs, RUM, and APM. The manager oversees the full lifecycle of events, including managing ingestion of over 100 million events per second, optimizing persistence layers with fast compaction, refining columnar formats, and building metadata services for high-volume queries. This role involves technical leadership through architecture reviews and pull requests, while also focusing on career development, performance management, and fostering operational excellence during on-call rotations. The ideal candidate is a software engineer at heart with experience in distributed systems and proficiency in Java or Go. They will solve complex scalability challenges to transition the database from petabyte-scale to exabyte-scale while partnering with product teams to prioritize new platform capabilities.

What does a Engineering Manager earn?

Median $267050 from 138 postings across 39 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage a team of software engineers focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact.
  • Lead technical decisions by reviewing architecture designs, RFCs, and pull requests to ensure high quality.
  • Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases and prioritize new platform capabilities.
  • Scale the petabyte-scale Husky database to meet exabyte-scale requirements.
  • Manage the lifecycle of events including ingestion, persistence optimization, and metadata service management.
  • Maintain a culture of operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and incident response.
  • Drive remediation efforts and write post-mortems following system incidents.

What we're looking for

  • Experience leading software engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.
  • Background in distributed systems.
  • Preferred hands-on experience with Java or Go.
  • Experience managing career development and performance management for engineers.
  • Experience with on-call rotations, incident response, and writing post-mortems.
  • Ability to lead technical decisions including architecture reviews and pull requests.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and leadership capabilities.

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