Manager, Engineering - APM Integrations - job 1 of 2

About Datadog:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The Team:

The team is responsible for Datadog’s APM data collection libraries. The team consists of 8 sub-teams, one per library (Python, Ruby, Go, Node, Java, .NET, C++, PHP), focused on capturing applications, libraries, and frameworks (e.g. Flask, Django, Micronaut) data points using auto-instrumentation capabilities. The team includes a dedicated sub-team focused on measuring, analyzing, and optimizing the performance and stability of our libraries with simplicity, reliability, performance, and security in mind.

Our product traces requests across distributed components, including microservices, databases, queues, and caches, to enable accurate and comprehensive health and performance monitoring for applications across all scales and complexity, with minimum overhead.

The Opportunity:

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide multiple sub-teams to extend our instrumentation functionalities, and to build new features for improved application monitoring. You will oversee the collaboration across products to support new initiatives and to design new primitives in our libraries to enhance Datadog’s application data collection.

You Will:

• Recruit, manage, and grow remote teams of talented engineers, ensuring they deliver high quality, timely work, and that they’re happy, motivated, and growing
• Work with the product team and other stakeholders to flesh out the future of the product
• Work with other managers in the US and in Europe to deliver cross-cutting projects
• Drive our open source projects and engage with the different languages communities to find and address the most important challenges; in observability, we work directly with growing communities such as OpenTelemetry
• Contribute to shape the future of the engineering organization

You Are:

• You have previously managed managers
• You are comfortable managing remote teams in different timezones
• You have a proven track record of understanding the performance of large-scale services
• You have significant experience in using profilers, debuggers, tracers, or similar tools to improve the code quality of the software you were writing
• You are data driven and have excellent analytical skills
• You have significant experience in at least one of the following languages: Python, Java, Go, .NET, Ruby, Node, C++ or PHP

Bonus Points:

• You’ve built a non-trivial application from scratch that sees significant user traffic
• You have experience with observability products
• You have experience with distributed systems

Why You Should Apply: 

• Generous and competitive global and US benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 
• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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.

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