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Manager I, Engineering - Alerting Platform

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Overview

Schedule
Full-time
Career level
Director
Remote
Hybrid remote
Benefits
Career Development
Health & Wellness Programs

Job Description

Engineering Managers in the Alerting Platform are responsible for the core systems that define and schedule monitors, create alerts, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the end to end alerting data across the platform.

This engineering manager will lead the team that owns the product experience of defining and managing monitors and the critical first step on customers' journey of responding to issues - a "full stack" team, from the UI to the public API.

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:

  • Define and prioritize goals in long term roadmaps with engineering and product leadership
  • Work with team members to drive technical direction in architecture decision making and ensuring good review processes
  • Manage and grow team of varying experience levels, intern to senior engineers, with a focus on impact and career development
  • Partner extensively across engineering and product teams to understand needs and collaborate on solutions
  • Lead by example in handling incidents and on-call responsibilities, ensure reliability is a priority.

Who You Are:

  • Built and led teams of 4+ engineers
  • Have owned high-scale customer-facing services that are measured on uptime, performance, and correctness
  • Experience with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
  • You're motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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.

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