Manager I, Engineering - Husky

Husky is what we call the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of our Event Platform, which powers dozens of Datadog’s most popular products – Logs, RUM, APM, Cloud Network Monitoring, Netflow, and many more. Husky was built from the ground up at Datadog to store and query massive volumes of...

As an Engineering Manager on Husky, you will lead one of a few closely collaborating teams that work directly on Husky’s internals. We own the full lifecycle of events stored by our Event Platform – whether it’s managing the ingestion of over 100 million events per second exactly-once, optimizing the persistence lay...

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.

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; while the role may not involve frequent hands on coding, you’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring 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 rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence
Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one

 

A software engineer at heart with previous experience leading software engineering teams and a track record of delivering high-quality software products, preferably with some hands on experience with 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.

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.