Manager, Engineering - Dashboards - job 2 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 dashboard teams own the interfaces where customers get to visualize and explore their systems. They build, scale, and operate beautiful, high-performance, programmable user interfaces. The team is responsible for the user interfaces, APIs and storage systems. We use React, Typescript, Python, Postgres.

The Opportunity:

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide and expand 2-3 teams that build Dashboards. You will lead the teams to excel in delivering new features, easy-to-use for new users and powerful for advanced ones. You will learn how creative customers can be, while making the best decisions to enable them to do even more. You will drive our continuous transformation into a platform, with the objective to become the to-go place to build new Datadog products.

You Will:

• Manage both managers and senior individual contributors, grow teams of exceptional engineers, ensuring they deliver high quality, timely work and that they’re happy, motivated, and growing
• Own meaningful parts of our user interfaces, with an eye to performance and user experience
• Work with teams across Datadog to ensure we are supporting their existing product needs and to make sure we understand what additional needs teams expect to have in the future
• Drive the technical direction and implementation of the products you oversee

You Are:

• You have significant experience with product development
• You have experience owning a product and being on-call for it
• You have previously managed managers
• You enjoy scaling teams
• You have experience working with other teams to deliver projects

Bonus Points:

• You are passionate about great UX
• You have owned backend services and APIs for a large product
• You have extensive experience monitoring performance in the frontend and backend

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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