In Datadog’s Alerting Platform, our mission is to help customers craft and organize monitors that accurately reflect the health of their systems, and to accelerate growth by making it easy to add alerting functionality to new products. The Monitor Notifications team owns the systems that build, route, deliver, and track notifications when monitors trigger. As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll help us scale these systems to support rapid growth, expand our capabilities to new product areas, and build a platform that improves consistency for users and client teams. You’ll combine technical and leadership skills every day to improve reliability, scalability, and solve tough product challenges.
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 a team of 6-7 talented engineers, ensuring they deliver high quality, timely work and that they’re happy, motivated, and growing
- Write a significant amount of code, lead architectural decisions for new and existing services
- Drive the team to improve operational excellence with performance testing and release goals
- Partner with product managers to identify the most impactful features and capabilities to build
Who You Are:
- You have been building applications for 4+ years and know the platforms/systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
- You have managed a team of software engineers varying in experience levels, and have a strong record of growing and developing their career path
- You have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale
- You have experience with queueing and streaming technologies, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar tools
- You have experience programming in Java, Go or Python
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional 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.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
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 an Affirmative Action and Equal 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.
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Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
