Manager I, Engineering - Metrics Control Plane

Posted:
12/16/2024, 9:29:50 AM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States ⋅ New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead our Metrics Control Plane team and help grow it to the next level. The team works across our Metrics Platform to design, implement, integrate, and operate systems that control data routing through our metrics pipeline to optimize reliability and performance.

 

Datadog’s metrics platform ingests several hundreds of TB’s/day and performs hundreds of thousands of queries per second. As Engineering Manager of the Metrics Control Plane team, you and your team will work with our partner metrics teams to develop and deliver the solutions for data routing on the metrics platform to support increasing levels of scalability and performance, while maintaining the reliability our customers have come to expect.

 

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 You’ll Do: 

  • Own the vision and execution for Metrics Control Plane
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Software Engineers
  • Partner with other Metrics Platform teams to develop solutions that bridge across systems within the Metrics Platform
  • Be a technical leader of the team; You’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality
  • Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team to maintain the culture of operational excellence
  • Run and optimize team processes, ensuring the successful delivery of high quality work

Who You Are: 

  • You’ve managed and lead one or more teams and have shipped successful products
  • You’re comfortable managing and working with geographically distributed teams
  • You’ve worked with distributed systems, control plane and/or data routing
  • You’re passionate about developing systems and tools that enable building scalable, elastic systems that can grow to support increasing customer and engineering needs
  • You have experience managing operationally heavy teams and you’re willing to share the on-call responsibilities with them
  • You are skilled in cross-functional collaboration and comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
  • You are a strategic thinker with a track record of translating complex technical concepts into actionable plans
  • You have a BS/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. That's okay. If you’re 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.

 

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

 

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$187,000$240,000 USD

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.


Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Datadog

Website: https://www.datadoghq.com/

Headquarter Location: New York, New York, United States

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2010

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Analytics ⋅ Cloud Computing ⋅ Cloud Data Services ⋅ Cloud Infrastructure ⋅ Data Management ⋅ DevOps ⋅ Productivity Tools ⋅ SaaS