Agent Release Manager
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 Agent team is responsible for the development and deployment of Datadog’s Open-Source Agent for multiple platforms and chip architectures, as well as the ongoing creation and support of our 400+ integrations. The team maintains a high bar for the quality of our software and its performance, consistently and reliably delivering the agent to thousands of customers.
The opportunity:
As a Release Manager for the Agent team, you will work with teams across the company to coordinate the recurring release of Datadog’s OpenSource Agent. You will provide support through communication and by continuing to establish process and quality goals. Through your involvement and with the support of data you will continually improve the processes and measures, allowing us to continue raising the standards for performance and feature delivery.
You will:
- Coordinate across teams for each Agent release, providing guidance and support
- Work with teams to identify and implement measures across the entire release lifecycle
- Work with release leads to identify and implement improvements
- Provide a consistent structure to the entire release process, including set meetings and clear documentation
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as a key participant in the regular release of a product or service
- Strong understanding of of modern CI/CD tooling and methodologies
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Bonus points:
- Find the implementation of the theory of constraints fascinating
- You have been a participant in building a continuous delivery pipeline from scratch
- You have previous experience building software
- You have previous experience in a project manager role
- You are passionate about testing
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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