Manager I, Engineering - Husky | Datadog Careers

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY
Posted: 15 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Manager I, Engineering - Husky | Datadog Careers

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As an Engineering Manager on the Husky team at Datadog, you will lead a group of software engineers responsible for maintaining and scaling the company’s petabyte-scale event store. Your day-to-day involves managing career development, reviewing technical decisions, and ensuring high-quality code while partnering with product teams to prioritize new capabilities. You’ll handle on-call responsibilities and foster an environment of operational excellence. Ideal candidates have experience leading distributed systems projects in Java or Go, a background in software engineering, and strong interpersonal skills for effective leadership and performance management. This role focuses on expanding the scalability of Datadog’s event platform to meet growing customer demands across various products like Logs, RUM, APM, and more.

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Java Go Docker Kubernetes CI/CD PostgreSQL Prometheus Grafana AWS Terraform GitLab Scalability Performance Optimization Columnar Storage Event Sourcing Operational Excellence Incident Management On-call Responsibilities Metadata Services

What you'll do

Manage a team of software engineers focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact.
Review architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests to ensure the team ships high-quality products.
Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases and prioritize new platform capabilities for Datadog’s growing customer base.
Scale Husky from petabyte-scale to exabyte-scale, meeting new scalability requirements driven by expanding customer needs.
Share on-call responsibilities and drive a culture of operational excellence within the team.

What we're looking for

Manage a team of software engineers across various levels, focusing on career development and inclusivity.
Ensure high-quality technical leadership by reviewing architecture decisions and pull requests for the team’s projects.
Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, implement solutions, and prioritize platform capabilities.
Have hands-on experience in Java or Go and a background in distributed systems, leading software engineering teams.
Lead incident responses, write post-mortems, and drive remediation efforts while sharing on-call responsibilities.
Scale petabyte-scale database infrastructure to exabyte scale, meeting growing customer base requirements.

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