Manager I, Engineering - Event Platform, Streaming Control Plane

Datadog’s Event Platform is one of the core applications platforms on top of which Datadog products are built. It powers more than 50 Datadog products by ingesting above 200GB/s of data while offering high availability and low latency.

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to lead the Streaming - Control Plane team - the team is responsible for the systems and abstractions streaming data between services within Datadog. 

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical platforms at Datadog. You will lead a team of junior and senior engineers focused on low latency distributed streaming systems, using Java, Go, Rust and Kafka. The team orchestrates thousands of topics and hundreds of different consumers.

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

• Lead technical and architectural discussions to better understand challenges and problems faced by our team and the streaming engineering community
• Stay in touch with your team’s code, roll up your sleeves when needed to unblock your team by writing code or troubleshooting issues and participate in an on-call rotation
• Lead and cultivate a team of engineers with a diverse skill-set, including performance management and career development
• Own and drive relationships with product teams and major stakeholders
• Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver high quality work on a timely manner
• Define and align team’s quarterly goals with the needs of the business and platform
  
  

Who You Are

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience
• You are a manager by choice with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
• You have experience building out robust platforms made up of services, data stores and data streams prioritizing high availability and performance
• You have a proven ability to work closely with internal teams to architect solutions at high scale
• You have significant experience in one or more backend languages, such as Go, Java or Rust; and with different types of streaming related technologies such as Kafka, Flink or Spark Structured Streaming
• You have a good affinity for user experience

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.

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.