Manager I, Engineering - Data Visualization Explorations
Engineering Manager leading the Data Visualization Explorations team at Datadog. Focuses on setting product direction for observability visualizations, coaching engineers, and delivering performant data experiences for core users. Requires 2+ years of people management and strong frontend skills.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team
- Coach and develop engineers at various levels
- Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more
- Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers to goals; identify opportunities to appropriately reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages
- Deeply understand the needs of customers and other Datadog products; participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members to adopt these practices
- Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage and remediation, incident response, and gathering and analyzing performance telemetry for widgets
Who You Are
- At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React
- Excellent communication skills, including delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
- Product-oriented mindset with focus on solving customer problems and shipping features quickly
- Passionate about data visualization and building intuitive, performant user interfaces
- Demonstrated sense of ownership over team’s work
Bonus: Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community through conference talks, blog posts, open source projects, teaching/mentorship, or other practices.
Skills
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Frontend Frameworks, Data Visualization, Project Management, Code Review, Architecture Patterns, Incident Response, Performance Telemetry
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