Manager I, Engineering - Alerting Platform

Position Overview

Engineering Managers in the Alerting Platform are responsible for the core systems that define and schedule monitors, create alerts, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the end to end alerting data across the platform. This engineering manager will lead the team that owns the product experience of defining and managing monitors and the critical first step on customers' journey of responding to issues - a "full stack" team, from the UI to the public API. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize goals in long term roadmaps with engineering and product leadership
• Work with team members to drive technical direction in architecture decision making and ensuring good review processes
• Manage and grow a team of varying experience levels, from intern to senior engineers, with a focus on impact and career development
• Partner extensively across engineering and product teams to understand needs and collaborate on solutions
• Lead by example in handling incidents and on-call responsibilities, ensuring reliability is a priority

Required Qualifications

• Built and led teams of 4+ engineers
• Owned high-scale customer-facing services measured on uptime, performance, and correctness
• Experience with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
• Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, related scientific field or equivalent professional experience

Benefits & Perks

• Salary: $187,000—$240,000 USD
• 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 with opportunities to join Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits