Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
About this role
**Coordination Systems Storage — Manager I, Engineering** Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms, including sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and more. We’re looking for a manager to lead the **Coordination Systems – Storage** team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems relied upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. You’ll help power critical runtime configuration (e.g., feature flags), complex control planes (e.g., dynamic sharding configuration), and more. Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, you’ll have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as **Resource Protection**. --- ### What You’ll Do - Lead a core team of **5 engineers** (distributed, with majority in **NYC**) - Lead ceremonies, prioritize, and delegate project work - Stay hands-on with the code (isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow-ups) - Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, and root cause analysis - Promote a culture of operational excellence (gamedays, operational reviews, proactive reliability) ### Who You Are - Strong distributed systems skills; able to understand and account for failure modes; well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, and simulation setup - Experience on platform teams providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders - Experience handling significant incidents (as a responder and follow-up owner) - Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management - Strong coding foundation, with experience in performance optimizations and profiling --- ### Benefits and Growth - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program - Inclusive company culture; ability to join Community Guilds (employee resource groups) - Access to Inclusion Talks (internal panel discussions) - Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ - Competitive global benefits *Benefits and Growth may vary based on country of employment and the nature of employment with Datadog.* **#LI-HYBRID** --- ### About Datadog Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. *Equal Opportunity at Datadog:* Datadog offers equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of protected characteristics, and considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. If you need accessibility assistance completing the application process, please use the accommodation request form provided on Datadog’s Careers page.
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