Team Lead, Engineering - Open Source Vector Project
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. Join us to own significant chunks of our architecture, build systems at scale, and ship to production every day for customers who care deeply about what you build.
The Team:
The Pipelines team builds and maintains the upcoming Datadog Pipelines product based on the open-source Vector project - a high-performance observability streaming data pipeline. Pipelines brings the power of Vector to enterprises by addressing challenges associated with scale. Challenges like deploying, managing, monitoring, observing, and supporting Vector across many different teams is the essence of what the Pipelines product solves.
The Opportunity:
We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to lead the engineering team responsible for building the new Datadog Pipelines product. You’ll be on the ground floor of building, launching, and scaling a new Datadog product with huge growth potential. You’ll work with talented engineers to deliver solutions to some of the world’s largest enterprise processing terabytes of data per day. You’ll be responsible for leading the execution of a mission critical observability pipeline that serves as the backbone to many company’s observability strategy.
As Engineering Team Lead you’re ultimately responsible for the execution of the Pipelines engineering team, ensuring timely delivery of high quality features. You’ll be close to the execution, involved in code-level discussions, and helping to coordinate and unblock engineering concerns.
You Will:
- Manage and grow a team of talented engineers, ensuring they deliver high quality, timely work and that they’re happy, motivated, and growing in their careers.
- Plan the most important projects to work on next.
- Collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team.
- Lead architectural decisions for the Pipelines product.
You Are:
- You have at least 8 years of experience with engineering, with some of that time as an engineering leader.
- You value a pragmatic, data-driven approach to engineering.
- You are a proficient written communicator, with the ability to clearly articulate thoughts across a team.
Bonus Points:
- You have direct experience with Rust.
- You have experience observability data structures such as logs, metrics, or traces.
- You were heavily involved in observability strategy at a previous company.
Why You Should Apply:
- Generous and competitive benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- 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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