Manager I, Engineering - Monitoring Resources & Indexing

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Engineering Manager to lead a talented team in the Alerting Platform. This role focuses on managing core systems for monitoring and alerting, ensuring data accuracy and reliability. You will have the opportunity to shape the technical direction, foster team growth, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The company values a hybrid work culture that promotes work-life balance and personal development. If you are passionate about technology and leadership, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Intradepartmental mentor program

Inclusive company culture

Free global mental health benefits

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams of engineers and managing high-scale services.
• Strong background in incident response and technical decision making.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of engineers focusing on career development.
• Drive technical direction and collaborate across teams for solutions.

Skills

Team Management

Technical Direction

Incident Management

Collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Engineering

PhD in a related field

Job description

Manager I, Engineering - Monitoring Resources & Indexing

New York, New York, USA

Engineering Managers in the Alerting Platform are responsible for the core systems that define and schedule monitors, create alerts, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the end to end alerting data across the platform.

This engineering manager will lead the team that owns the canonical storage layer, APIs, and search indexing services. Customers can configure monitors and generate alerts for virtually every product in our unified platform. We maintain our customers' trust by delivering these notifications reliably and displaying accurate and complete data.

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:

• Manage and grow team of varying experience levels, intern to senior engineers, with a focus on impact and career development
• Work with team members to drive technical direction in architecture decision making and ensuring good review processes
• Partner extensively across engineering and product teams to understand needs and collaborate on solutions
• Define and prioritize goals in long term roadmaps with engineering and product leadership
• Lead by example in handling incidents and on-call responsibilities, ensure reliability is a priority
  
  

Who You Are:

• Built and led teams of 4+ engineers
• Have owned high-scale customer-facing services that are measured on uptime, performance, and correctness
• Experience with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
• 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+

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.

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

$187,000 — $240,000 USD

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 anAffirmative Action andEqual 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.