Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage
About The Position
Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms. Our services cover sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and much more. We are looking for a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems that are depended upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. We power critical runtime configuration (e.g. feature flags), complex control planes (e.g. dynamic sharding configuration), and much more. Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, the candidate will have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as Resource Protection.
Requirements
- Strong distributed systems skills, able to understand and account for a variety of failure modes, well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, simulation setup, etc.
- Worked on platform teams before, providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders
- Experienced in handling significant incidents, both as a responder and follow-up owner
- Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills
- Strong foundation in coding, experienced with performance optimizations and profiling
Responsibilities
- Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC)
- Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate projects
- Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups
- Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc.
- Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs)
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development
- Product training
- 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
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
