The REDAPL team is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee our Datastore Serving subteam. REDAPL is Datadogs main platform for tracking our customers infrastructure resources and relationships. The Datastore Serving team will power resource queries across a diverse range of datastores including PostgreSQL Cassandra and Elasticsearch supporting numerous Datadog products.
This position will play a critical role in driving the future of our data infrastructure and ensuring the highest level of performance and reliability for our systems. As the team is also quickly growing you will also be involved in hiring the best candidates for this team.
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 worklife harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Strategic Leadership: Drive the vision and strategy for the team ensuring alignment with the overall goals
- Team Oversight: Provide guidance and support to the Engineering ICs fostering a collaborative and highperforming work environment
- Technical Excellence: Ensure the team maintains high standards of code quality performance and reliability across all systems and services
- Innovation and Improvement: Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement within the datastore and serving domains promoting best practices and new technologies
- Talent Management: Lead hiring efforts to attract and retain top talent ensuring the growth and development of team members through mentoring and professional development opportunities
- Crossfunctional Collaboration: Work closely with other teams and stakeholders to align on priorities address challenges and deliver highimpact solutions
Who You Are:
- You have 2 years of experience as a technical people manager with strong mentorship skills. An ideal candidate will have experience in career development performance management tracking and optimizing team efficiency OKRs and hiring
- Have proven experience managing teams that shipped and operated businesscritical systems
- Have demonstrated ability in designing building and operating distributed systems to solve problems at scale
- You are an excellent communicator and collaborator able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders
- Possess excellent teamwork communication and technical problemsolving skills to contribute to multidisciplinary teams
- Efficient in optimizing team workflows and processes to enhance team output and collaboration
- Known for balancing fast iteration strategic ambiguity and highquality outcomes in a dynamic business environment
- You have aBS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience
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 inhouse 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.
Required Experience:
Manager