Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
About this role
**Observability Pipelines (OP)** is Datadog’s on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product. As an **Engineering Manager** on the team, you’ll own people management and engineering execution for one of OP’s core missions, spanning areas like: - Intelligence (a pipeline that decides where data goes—and why) - Integrations (ingesting from and routing to customer source/destination systems) - Streaming insights - Cost control - Pipeline capabilities, reliability, and scalability You’ll partner directly with Product to shape the roadmap, and work closely with peer EMs and senior ICs to define how OP operates and grows—building your management craft while influencing the technical direction of a fast-growing product area. --- ## What You’ll Do - Own people management and engineering execution for a team of **5 engineers** - Establish a strong operating rhythm, driving high standards for **on-call rotations**, **incident response**, **reliability**, and **release quality** - Partner closely with **Product Management** on the roadmap, balancing product priorities with technical realities - Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers on your team --- ## Who You Are - Experienced managing engineers directly; comfortable owning the team’s operating rhythm end-to-end (planning → execution → stakeholder communication → incident/on-call ownership) - Technical background in **one or more** of: - Distributed systems - Data infrastructure - Systems programming - High-throughput data plane environments - Strong product sensibility and a track record for shipping; enjoy working with Product on strategy and execution --- ## Preferred Experience - Experience with high-performance or **Rust-based** data pipeline systems - Experience with **on-premise** or customer-installed software concepts --- ## 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 culture and 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 (may vary by country and employment type) --- ## 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 regardless of protected characteristics, and considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
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