Manager I, Engineering Husky

Husky is what we call the distributed petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of our Event Platform which powers dozens of Datadogs most popular products Logs RUM APM Cloud Network Monitoring Netflow and many more. Husky was built from the ground up at Datadog to store and query massive volumes of event data at low cost with data fully queryable within seconds of arrival.

As an Engineering Manager on Husky you will lead one of a few closely collaborating teams that work directly on Huskys internals. We own the full lifecycle of events stored by our Event Platform whether its managing the ingestion of over 100 million events per second exactly-once optimizing the persistence layer with lightning-fast compaction tweaking our columnar format timely deletion across hundreds of thousands of customer tables or building the metadata service that enables hundreds of thousands of queries per second you will be responsible for the growth and success of a team constantly meeting new scalability requirements driven by Datadogs growing customer base and suite of products.

At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What Youll Do:

• Manage a team of software engineers ranging from new grads to senior engineers focusing on career development inclusivity and high impact

• Be a technical leader of the team; while the role may not involve frequent hands on coding youll be reviewing architecture decisions RFCs and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality

• Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases ensure smooth implementation and prioritize new platform capabilities.

• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence

• Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one

Who You Are:

• A software engineer at heart with previous experience leading software engineering teams and a track record of delivering high-quality software products preferably with some hands on experience with Java or Go and a background in distributed systems.

• Experienced with being on-call leading incident responses writing post mortems and driving remediation efforts

• An excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills with experience in career development and performance management.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing

• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

• An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

• Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions

• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6

• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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