Team Lead, Engineering - Inbox

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 mission of the inbox team is to manage alerts coming from any system, service or infrastructure for organizations. This means having to sort thousands of alerts everyday, from dozens of disparate monitoring tools. They need to centralize these alerts into a single place, and filter and prioritize the most critical ones for immediate escalation into incidents. The goal of inbox is to organize all of these alerts in one place and support the above workflow of filtering, prioritizing and remediating these alerts.

The Opportunity:

As Engineering Team Lead for the Inbox team, you will bootstrap and lead a fast-moving product team working on hard systems problems. You'll use the latest open-source technology to build high throughput, high availability, low latency systems. You’ll also work with frontend engineers to deliver the inbox experience to our customers… And finally, you'll make a huge impact on the future direction we take, both on the product and the technical architecture.

You Will:

• Bootstrap a new team from scratch and act as one of the founding engineers on the team
• Manage the engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
• Write a significant amount of code (Go/Python) for new and existing backend services
• Own and support the technical architecture and production systems
• Ensure the team consistently ships high quality code and architecture
• Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver

You Are:

• You have been building applications for 5+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
• You have significant backend programming experience
• You have managed a team of software engineers
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that respects its engineers and customers

Bonus Points:

• You have prior experience in bootstrapping and leading new teams
• You have significant experience with Go or Python

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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