Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms. Our services cover sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and much more.

We are looking for a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems that are depended upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. We power critical runtime configuration (e.g. feature flags), complex control planes (e.g. dynamic sharding configuration), and much more.

Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, the candidate will have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as Resource Protection.

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: (Describe role responsibilities here/max 6 bullets)

Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC)
Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate project
Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups
Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc.
Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability

Who You Are: (Describe role qualifications here/max 6 bullets)

Strong distributed systems skills, able to understand and account for a variety of failure modes, well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, simulation setup, etc.
Worked on platform teams before, providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders
Experienced in handling significant incidents, both as a responder and follow-up owner
Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Strong foundation in coding, experienced with performance optimizations and profiling

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: (Describe opportunities offered here)

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.

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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,

Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage