Manager I, Engineering - Synthetics Platform

The Synthetics Platform team is the interface between engineers developing the Synthetics products and Datadog infrastructure teams. Today, Synthetics services are already deployed in more than 30 regions and across 3 cloud providers. The team is responsible to deploy new locations to run Synthetics tests, build tooling to deploy software in them, provide help on setting up cloud provider specific services to other Synthetics teams and oversee the reliability of the product. The systems and tooling the team is using include: Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, Redis, Bazel, Temporal, build tooling, Cassandra, configuration management, container orchestration, Kafka.

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 and mentor a team of experienced SREs and Software developers around the globe who are passionate about testing API and Website reliability at scale.
• Deploy new Synthetics locations
• Develop tooling to manage existing Synthetics locations
• Design, plan, develop tools to do various type of migrations in a fully automated way without any downtime in many regions/cloud providers
• Help shape new infrastructure technologies serving the Synthetics product
• Be an expert helping Synthetics developers to make better architecture decisions and configure their services
• Be on-call for part of the services running the Synthetics product

 

Who You Are:

• You are an experienced people manager, or technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally candidates will have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, sprint planning, OKRs, and hiring.
• You have experience in the SRE domain or you have programming experience with a structured programming language (Go, Python, Java, etc)
• You have experience running production environments within one or several Cloud environments
• You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
• You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems
• You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka, Redis

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.