Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage

Datadog; City of Niagara Falls (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive culture and ERGs

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Manager I, Engineering for Coordination Systems Storage in New York, NY. You will lead a core team responsible for essential configuration storage and distribution used across Datadog services, while staying hands-on with development and reliability work.

The role emphasizes operational excellence and collaboration across teams, with opportunities to influence runtime configuration and control planes across the platform.

Qualifications

• Strong distributed systems expertise with failure modes and end-to-end observability.
• Experience in platform teams delivering internal infrastructure.
• Proven experience handling major incidents as responder and owner.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Solid coding foundation with performance optimizations and profiling.

Responsibilities

• Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC).
• Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate projects.
• Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups.
• Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc.
• Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Code profiling

Job description

Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage

New York, New York, USA

Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms. Our services cover sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and much more.

We are looking for a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems that are depended upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. We power critical runtime configuration (e.g. feature flags), complex control planes (e.g. dynamic sharding configuration), and much more.

Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, the candidate will have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as Resource Protection.

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:

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• Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC)
• Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate project
• Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups
• Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc.
• Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability

Who You Are:

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• Strong distributed systems skills, able to understand and account for a variety of failure modes, well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, simulation setup, etc.
• Worked on platform teams before, providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders
• Experienced in handling significant incidents, both as a responder and follow-up owner
• Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Strong foundation in coding, experienced with performance optimizations and profiling

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:

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• 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+

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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The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$192,000 — $240,000 USD

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with 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. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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