Manager I, Engineering - Metrics Control Plane

We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead our Metrics Control Plane team and help grow it to the next level. The team works across our Metrics Platform to design, implement, integrate, and operate systems that control data routing through our metrics pipeline to optimize reliability and performance.

Datadog’s metrics platform ingests several hundreds of TB’s/day and performs hundreds of thousands of queries per second. As Engineering Manager of the Metrics Control Plane team, you and your team will work with our partner metrics teams to develop and deliver the solutions for data routing on the metrics platform to support increasing levels of scalability and performance, while maintaining the reliability our customers have come to expect.

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: 

• Own the vision and execution for Metrics Control Plane
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Software Engineers
• Partner with other Metrics Platform teams to develop solutions that bridge across systems within the Metrics Platform
• Be a technical leader of the team; You’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality
• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team to maintain the culture of operational excellence
• Run and optimize team processes, ensuring the successful delivery of high quality work
  
  

Who You Are: 

• You’ve managed and lead one or more teams and have shipped successful products
• You’re comfortable managing and working with geographically distributed teams
• You’ve worked with distributed systems, control plane and/or data routing
• You’re passionate about developing systems and tools that enable building scalable, elastic systems that can grow to support increasing customer and engineering needs
• You have experience managing operationally heavy teams and you’re willing to share the on-call responsibilities with them
• You are skilled in cross-functional collaboration and comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• You are a strategic thinker with a track record of translating complex technical concepts into actionable plans
• 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+
• 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.

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.