# Manager I, Engineering - Core Analytics
**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $187K-$240K
**Skills:** AWS, Spark, Iceberg, ETL, ELT, Data Pipelines, Streaming, Batch Processing, Data Engineering, Observability, Data Governance
**Posted:** 2026-03-09
> Leads small team of data engineers building scalable Core Analytics Data Access Platform. Owns technical direction, codes hands-on, ensures security/governance, and partners with AI/analytics teams. Requires data engineering and AWS/Spark experience.
## Job Description
## What You’ll Do
- **Lead a Hands-On Engineering Team**: Manage, mentor, and grow a small team of 2–4 data engineers across Paris and NYC.
- **Own Technical Direction and Delivery**: Define architecture, engineering priorities, and roadmap for scalable, secure data pipelines and platform services.
- **Contribute to Design and Code**: Spend substantial time coding, reviewing, and shipping critical platform components.
- **Partner with Internal Stakeholders**: Work with Applied AI, Product Analytics, product managers, and platform teams to define data contracts, APIs, SLAs, and datasets.
- **Ensure Data Security, Governance, and Reliability**: Implement access controls, lineage, monitoring, and compliance guardrails.
- **Plan and Scale the Platform**: Evolve storage, processing, APIs, and practices for broader adoption.

## Who You Are
- Hands-on engineering manager who remains an active contributor.
- Experienced in data pipelines and at-scale data engineering (ETL/ELT, streaming/batch workflows).
- Practical knowledge of AWS, Spark, Iceberg (or equivalents).
- Collaborative partner to data scientists and analysts.
- Operationally strong with SLAs, observability, incident response, data governance.
- Pragmatic architect balancing short-term delivery and long-term goals.
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