Engineering Team Lead - Integrations
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:
The Integrations Team at Datadog builds open-source software to connect with the vast ecosystem our customers use. The team instruments everything from programming languages to OS counters to databases to cloud providers, and creates tools to make it easy for external contributors to create integrations.
The opportunity:
Easily configurable integrations are a key part of why our customers love Datadog. As Engineering Team Lead for the Integrations team, you’ll manage a distributed team of talented engineers who will expand our scope of integrations to include everything developers use to build modern software—from the latest technology to tried-and-true workhorses. You will work with product managers to decide which integrations will be built by the Integrations team, and work with a community of open-source developers as they contribute to our ecosystem.
You will:
- Manage the engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
- Build the open-source tools that connect cutting edge, industry leading software to Datadog
- 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
Requirements:
- 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 excel with several low-level and scripting languages
- You have a track record of open source contributions
- 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 that respects its engineers and customers
Bonus points:
- You are a master at Python, Java, C++ or Go
- You have mastered Linux, from the system to the libs to the common apps
- You have mastered the art of managing a remote team
- You have development experience on Windows
- You have development experience on Unix OSes
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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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