Engineering Manager - APM Distributed Tracing
About Datadog:
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The team:
Datadog's APM teams are building a world-class tracing product that helps developers see inside complex distributed systems. We're building rock solid libraries to trace requests as they flow across servers, databases, caches and micro-services in all the major languages. We're investing heavily in systems to process a massive firehose of data - fast data pipelines, scalable storage systems and a slick UI to tie it all together.
Datadog APM Distributed Tracing teams build and run the intake and sampling engines for all distributed traces. Datadog APM is growing rapidly, and our Distributed Tracing teams are at the core of our growth: today we ingest millions of distributed traces per second, each of which we make available for query in seconds. We're building a platform which is running in the cloud, is always on, at low latency and high throughput.
The opportunity:
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to expand and lead our teams building out our core Distributed Tracing capabilities. You may be driving the development of a new sampling engine, more reliable ingestion pipelines, new data primitives to trace unsupported architectures or the integration of distributed tracing into other Datadog products.
You’ll join at an ideal time to make a big impact. Datadog Tracing without Limits was released last year and paved the way for an even faster growth in terms of scale and features we can implement, such as new querying or sampling capabilities. You will lead the team in defining product, designing architecture, managing both individual contributors and managers, and recruiting excellent engineers.
You will:
- Manage both managers and individual contributors, grow teams of exceptional Engineers, ensuring they deliver high quality, timely work and that they’re happy, motivated, and growing.
- Work with the product team to flesh out the future of the product.
- Work with other managers across the world to deliver cross-cutting projects (e.g. integration of other products into a unified query language).
- Scale the systems to accommodate hyper growth.
- Contribute to shaping the future of the engineering organization.
Requirements:
- You have been building applications for 6+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
- You have significant backend programming experience.
- You have managed a team of software engineers.
- You have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale.
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
- You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
Bonus points:
- You have managed teams programming in Go, Rust, Java and/or Python.
- You’ve worked extensively with (or for) a major cloud provider.
- You have experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams.
- You have deep experience with observability products.
- You’ve recruited a team of engineers before.
- You have front-end experience.
Why You Should Apply:
- Generous and competitive benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Best in breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
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Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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