Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and ESPP

Continuous professional development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive company culture and Employee

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team, providing essential configuration storage and distribution systems. The role includes leading a core team, guiding ceremonies, and staying hands-on with code and operations, all within a hybrid Datadog workplace in the NYC area.

The position emphasizes operational excellence, architecture alignment, and collaboration with internal stakeholders across Datadog’s services.

Qualifications

• Strong distributed systems understanding and failure-mode awareness.
• Experience leading platform or internal infrastructure teams.
• Solid track record handling incidents and owning follow-ups.
• Excellent collaboration with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a core team of engineers and ceremonies.
• Stay hands-on with code and perform small remediations.
• Oversee operations, incidents, and root-cause analyses.
• Promote operational excellence through reviews and gamedays.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Incident response

Cross-team collaboration

Code performance profiling

Job description

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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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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: $192,000 — $240,000 USD

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