Manager I, Engineering - Cloud Platform AWS - Remote

Overview

The Cloud Platforms - Observability organization helps to build the Infrastructure Monitoring products at Datadog. We serve as the API to the Clouds for all of Datadog and our customers, and act as the ingestion point for all telemetry data from Cloud or SaaS providers. We partner with Cloud Providers to develop features and integrations that benefit our mutual customers. As an Engineering Manager in this organization, you’ll lead a highly motivated team of engineers that build and maintain a load bearing system at Datadog and generate value for our customers, company and industry partners.

In Short

• Lead and mentor a team of 4+ software engineers.
• Drive improvements in the resilience, availability and efficiency of the team’s services.
• Work with engineering and product leaders to define well-prioritized OKRs and roadmaps to maximize the team’s impact.
• Manage large cross-team projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence.

Requirements

• Experience as a people manager or technical leader with strong mentorship skills.
• Experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team efficiency, OKRs, and hiring.
• Experience with cloud technologies in production and managing teams that operate distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture.
• Experience leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Benefits

• 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.
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.