Manager I, Engineering, Reference Tables Access

Datadog

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYBoston, MATX
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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This role pays more than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $170,000–$244,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $207k 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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager I, Engineering, Reference Tables Access

Manager I, Engineering - Reference Tables Access will lead the Reference Tables Access team in developing a consistent tabular abstraction for the internal Data Lake. This role involves guiding the team’s roadmap, mentoring engineers, and establishing engineering best practices to build reliable platform capabilities. You will oversee the development of UI, MCP, APIs, and control plane components that allow customers to bring external data into the platform for log enrichment, security, and analytical workflows. Key responsibilities include managing table identity, metadata, permissions, quotas, validation, and lifecycle services. The ideal candidate possesses a strong foundation in large-scale distributed systems and customer-facing platform development. You must be able to navigate complex technical challenges, manage mission-critical systems, and support high-reliability infrastructure requiring rapid incident response.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in New York?

Median $254488 from 41 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a team of engineers to ensure effective project execution.
  • Define and drive the team’s technical direction in partnership with product managers and staff engineers.
  • Shape the team’s roadmap and contribute to the broader organization’s technical direction.
  • Establish and uphold engineering best practices to ensure consistency and quality.
  • Mentor and coach engineers to support their professional career growth and development.
  • Manage mission-critical systems requiring high reliability and rapid incident response.
  • Develop a consistent tabular abstraction for product teams to use across various workflows.

What we're looking for

  • Lead a team of engineers to ensure effective project execution and career growth.
  • Partner with product managers and staff engineers to define and drive technical direction.
  • Establish and uphold engineering best practices to ensure consistency and quality.
  • Possess a strong foundation in large-scale distributed systems and/or customer-facing platform development.
  • Demonstrate the ability to dive deep into technical details in code and designs.
  • Experience with mission-critical systems and high-stakes operations is required.
  • Ability to support infrastructure demanding high reliability and rapid incident response through a 24x7 on-call rotation.
  • Skilled in prioritization, escalation, and clear communication to help teams progress through ambiguity.

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