Manager I, Engineering
Engineering Manager leading squads building Datadog's Experimentation App. Own delivery, technical direction, and team growth for full-stack/frontend engineers while partnering with statisticians, PMs, and customers to ship features in a fast-paced environment.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong full-stack and frontend engineers. Help them grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop.
- Own delivery for the Experimentation App from planning through production, balancing speed with quality in a fast-paced environment.
- Set technical direction in partnership with your team and our statistics engineers, engaging credibly on architecture and tradeoffs.
- Partner with Product, Design, and customers directly to shape requirements and turn customer and sales input into roadmap.
- Foster a culture of fast iteration and high engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and blameless postmortems.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier talent as the team scales.
Who You Are
- 2-3 years experience as a people manager, or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally you have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, and hiring.
- 5+ years experience building and shipping software, with a strong technical background that lets you engage credibly on architecture and tradeoffs even if you are no longer writing most of the code.
- Experience shipping products in a fast-paced environment, comfortable balancing speed with quality and making decisions with customer input as a primary signal.
- You are energized by ambiguity and a large roadmap, and you can help your team prioritize and sequence work to deliver consistently.
- Strong stakeholder management skills. You use empathy, collaboration, and clear communication to work with engineers and non-technical partners alike.
Benefits and Growth
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits and giving programs
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000–$240,000 USD
Skills
Full Stack Development, Frontend Engineering, Software Architecture, Mentorship, Performance Management, Hiring, Stakeholder Management
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