Manager I, Engineering
Lead a team of 8-9 engineers building Datadog's serverless APM experience, including auto-instrumentation, distributed tracing for cloud-managed services across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and OpenTelemetry support. Requires strong engineering management experience, passion for developer experience, and comfort across multiple languages and cloud runtimes.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Lead a polyglot team of 8-9 engineers and partner closely with Product and Engineering teams across Datadog to deliver industry-leading serverless capabilities that power consistent, scalable, and intuitive instrumentation across languages.
- Drive a domain that is technically rich: Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, OTel billing, Rust, durable functions, distributed tracing across managed services. Engineers on this team work across languages, clouds, and deployment models.
- Partner with the product manager to shape the strategy and execution for our 3 main clouds - AWS, Azure and GCP, in addition to being at the cutting edge of new managed platforms and how we can bring distributed tracing to them.
Who You Are
- An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping products.
- Highly collaborative.
- Experienced in two or more languages and comfortable building cross-runtime systems.
- Have a passion for libraries and OSS software development.
- Care about developer experience, clean APIs, and reliable systems.
- An ability to pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details (and articulate how one impacts the other).
- Comfortable with partner and stakeholder management.
Skills
Distributed Tracing, OpenTelemetry, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, Rust, Observability, Oss Development
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