Manager I, Engineering - REDAPL Datastore Serving

About the position

The REDAPL team is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee our Datastore Serving sub-team. REDAPL is Datadog's main platform for tracking our customers' infrastructure resources and relationships. The Datastore Serving team will power resource queries across a diverse range of datastores, including PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch, supporting numerous Datadog products. This position will play a critical role in driving the future of our data infrastructure and ensuring the highest level of performance and reliability for our systems. As the team is also quickly growing, you will also be involved in hiring the best candidates for this team. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

Responsibilities

• Drive the vision and strategy for the team, ensuring alignment with the overall goals
• Provide guidance and support to the Engineering ICs, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment
• Ensure the team maintains high standards of code quality, performance, and reliability across all systems and services
• Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement within the datastore and serving domains, promoting best practices and new technologies
• Lead hiring efforts to attract and retain top talent, ensuring the growth and development of team members through mentoring and professional development opportunities
• Work closely with other teams and stakeholders to align on priorities, address challenges, and deliver high-impact solutions

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a technical people manager with strong mentorship skills
• Proven experience managing teams that shipped and operated business-critical systems
• Demonstrated ability in designing, building, and operating distributed systems to solve problems at scale
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders
• Possess excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute to multidisciplinary teams
• Efficient in optimizing team workflows and processes to enhance team output and collaboration
• Known for balancing fast iteration, strategic ambiguity, and high-quality outcomes in a dynamic business environment
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan