Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines

Datadog

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Posted: 53 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago

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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 - Observability Pipelines

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Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines (OP) joins the team responsible for a vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product designed for on-premise use. In this role, you will manage people and oversee engineering execution across core missions including integrations, streaming insights, cost control, and pipeline reliability. You will establish operating rhythms, drive high standards for incident response and on-call rotations, and partner with Product to shape the roadmap while balancing technical realities with product priorities. The ideal candidate possesses a technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure, specifically involving high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems. You will also navigate complexities related to customer-installed software. This position focuses on solving problems regarding the ingestion and routing of data across various source and destination systems while ensuring scalable performance for the core product area.

Skills

Rust Distributed Systems Data Infrastructure data pipeline s Incident Response Telemetry Scalability

What you'll do

Manage the day-to-day engineering execution and people management for a core product mission.
Establish and maintain a consistent operating rhythm for the engineering team.
Drive high standards for on-call rotations and incident response procedures.
Partner with Product teams to shape the roadmap by balancing priorities with technical realities.
Coach and develop the careers of engineers within your direct reporting line.
Oversee the development of features related to integrations, streaming insights, cost control, and scalability.

What we're looking for

Experience managing engineers directly and owning team operating rhythms from planning through execution.
Technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure.
Experience with on-premises or customer-installed software concepts.
Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems.
Ability to partner with Product teams on strategy and roadmap development.
Proven ability to manage incident response and on-call rotations.

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