Manager I, Engineering - Husky

Datadog; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Husky platform in Paris. This role includes managing a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality software deliveries, and overseeing system performance at scale.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience leading software teams, preferably with skills in Java or Go. We support a hybrid workplace and value collaboration and inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Prior experience leading software engineering teams.
• Delivery of high-quality software products.
• Hands-on experience in Java or Go.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software engineers focusing on development and inclusivity.
• Review architecture decisions and ensure high-quality output.
• Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Java

Go

Distributed systems

Job description

Overview

Husky is the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of Datadog’s Event Platform. It powers logs, RUM, APM, Cloud Network Monitoring, Netflow, and more. Husky stores and queries massive volumes of event data at low cost, with data 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 Husky’s internals. You will own the full lifecycle of events stored by our Event Platform, including ingestion, persistence optimization, columnar format tuning, timely deletion across hundreds of thousands of customer tables, and 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 that meets new scalability requirements driven by Datadog’s growing customer base and product suite.

Datadog values people from all walks of life and emphasizes culture, collaboration, and work-life harmony. This role supports a hybrid workplace.

What You’ll 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; review architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensure 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 team and foster a culture of operational excellence
• Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one

Who You Are

• A software engineer at heart with prior experience leading software engineering teams and delivering high-quality software products, preferably with hands-on experience in 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

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 (employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Datadog is trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders.

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