Engineering Manager - Incident Management

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Boston, MA
Hybrid
187K-240K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software • Cybersecurity
We are building the monitoring and security platform for developers, IT ops teams and business users in the cloud age.
The Role
Manages small to medium-sized engineering team with a focus on engineering execution/leadership. Sets product direction, manages backlog, writes code, ensures high-quality code & architecture, and resolves issues. Oversees team productivity, removes roadblocks, supports engineers' growth, and provides feedback.
Summary Generated by Built In

Incident Management is an SRE team in our Resilience Engineering organization whose mission is to build a culture of resilience by using incidents as learning opportunities and catalysts for growth. We collaborate closely with teams across departments to enhance on-call experience, incident response, and post-incident analysis by reducing friction, providing analysis skills, and optimizing processes. Our efforts empower engineers across Datadog to navigate complexity and unexpected failures with confidence and efficiency.
As an Engineering Manager, you will help us realize this mission by driving cross-functional reliability programs with other stakeholders, building platforms to solve operational problems, and setting up thousands of engineers for success through training and golden paths.
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.
What You'll Do:

  • Lead and mentor a team of experienced SREs who are passionate about building a culture of reliability and resilience at Datadog. Help engineers grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop.
  • Steer the on-call experience for the company by establishing best practices and building platforms to support on-call rotations and compensation, as well as training engineers in monthly workshops. Support managers adopt practices by providing data and perspective on their teams' experiences.
  • Represent the interests of incident responders across Datadog by working with product teams to identify and help prioritize features that improve their user experience and efficiency during incidents.
  • Work with stakeholders across Datadog to build consensus on shared topics around incident management - for example collaborating with security teams to ensure our global process is consistent and well-adopted.
  • Build a culture of continuous learning by incentivising engineers to invest in incident analysis, write postmortems, and commit to fixing systemic problems. Help the organization track common themes or emergent trends.


Who You Are:

  • 2-3 years experience as a people manager or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally candidates will have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, sprint planning, OKRs, and hiring.
  • 2-3 years experience in the SRE or incident management domain. Most of our work involves building culture and a community of practice for incidents, so being able to understand pain points from an engineer's point of view is important.
  • Technical pragmatism and an ability to help the team reason about trade-offs around implementation. You will often review the decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, and you will need to blend both your technical and business acumen to do this.
  • Strong distributed systems knowledge. While we are not in the critical path for customer-facing infrastructure, we support people who are, so we need to leverage our technical experience to build credibility. We frequently read postmortems and offer suggestions, so you will need a good technical baseline.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills. This will involve using your empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to work remotely with people across teams. Because our programs touch lots of different parts of the business, we frequently collaborate with stakeholders across Datadog and need to motivate teams to work together towards a shared goal.


Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:

  • 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, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits


Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$187,000 - $240,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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The Company
Boston, MA
5,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.

Why Work With Us

At Datadog, we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems, innovate pragmatically, and grow together. We promote from within, provide mentorship and opportunities for career development, and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them and their team.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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