Manager I, Engineering - Dynamic Code Instrumentation

The Dynamic Instrumentation / Live Debugging team is building an exciting, brand new product that helps developers quickly troubleshoot and diagnose bugs and performance issues in complex distributed systems - bringing code-level observability into the hands of every developer. We're investing heavily in experiences that allow developers to dynamically instrument their applications and perform live debugging, in production, with the smallest possible performance overhead and rock-solid reliability. Come and join a team that cares about building software the right way.

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 the Dynamic Code Instrumentation team (8 runtime engineers), developing their skills and helping advance their careers
• Write a significant amount of code for new and existing instrumentations
• Work with our security teams to ensure we are delivering a sensitive product with top-notch security
• Collaborate with our AI Code Gen team and IDE Integration team to create meaningful new customer experiences
• Ensure the team consistently ships high quality code and architecture
• Help make sure our instrumentations behave consistently across the different programming languages we support, and are performant and reliable
• Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver high quality work

Who You Are:

• You are an excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead high-performing teams
• You have a keen interest in working with low-level runtime internals and/or compilers
• You have significant knowledge of the inner working of at least one runtime environment (JVM, Python, .NET CLR, Javascript / v8, Ruby, or Golang / ebpf)
• You've written high-performance, concurrent applications and squeezed every bit of performance from your system. You've written clean, correct, well-tested, performant, idiomatic code
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Bonus Points:

• You've worked on the runtime or the compiler for a popular programming language, or a developer tool such as an IDE or static code analysis
• You have experience building cross-platform software

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:

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.