Team Lead, Engineering - Agent Core
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—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The Team:
The Agent Core team at Datadog writes and maintains the core functionality of the Datadog Agent which schedules integrations, collects logs, and processes hundreds of thousands of data points per second from monitored applications. The team is also responsible for measuring and improving the performance, resource utilization, and data throughput of the Datadog Agent. The Datadog Agent runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and on AMD/Intel and ARM architectures. The Datadog Agent is deployed on millions of customer hosts in containerized environments, on virtual machines, and in dedicated datacenters.
The Opportunity:
As Engineering Team Lead for the Agent Core team, you’ll manage a distributed team of talented engineers who will work on the Datadog Agent. You will work with product managers to determine which features and integrations will be built by the team, and work with a community of open source developers as they contribute other integrations.
You Will:
- Manage the engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
- Work with product managers to prioritize features
- Work with engineers and leads on other teams
- Ensure the team consistently ships high quality code and architecture
- Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver
- Track and improve the throughput and resource utilization of key parts of the Datadog Agent
You Are:
- You have been building applications for 4+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
- You have managed a team of software engineers
- You have experience building and shipping packaged or downloadable software
- You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment that respects its engineers and customers
Bonus Points:
- You have experience writing high-performance Go code
- You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
- You have experience building cross-platform software
- You’ve managed a distributed team of software engineers
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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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