Engineering Manager I - Test Optimization Libraries

Summary

Join Datadog as an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the Test Optimization - Libraries team, contributing to the expansion of the Datadog Platform. You will be a hands-on technical leader, cultivating a team of engineers and shaping the product roadmap. Responsibilities include leading and developing a team, participating in code and design reviews, creating a strong team culture, collaborating with product management, ensuring SDK development and improvement, and helping grow the team. The ideal candidate possesses experience with low-level libraries, team leadership, and high-quality software delivery. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and various benefits, including stock equity, professional development opportunities, and a supportive company culture.

Requirements

• You have experience working with low-level libraries used by thousands of engineers to enhance their own code
• You have previous experience, such as serving as a tech lead or people manager, leading software engineering teams
• You are an excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and you have the ability to build and lead high-performing teams, and setting priorities effectively, while mentoring junior and senior engineers to support their career growth
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product management and other engineering managers to set the vision and strategy for your projects
• You have hands-on experience with one or two of the languages we support , ideally JavaScript and Python, and a willingness to spend some time being hands-on and participating in an on-call rotation

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a talented team of libraries engineers, who are responsible for building the product end-to-end, from data collection to data visualization, directly managing 7 engineers
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews, and coding
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Work closely with product management and other engineering managers to support powerful user workflows that best leverage the vast amount of information being collected
• Ensure the development and continuous improvement of our SDKs, ensuring they are easy to use and powerful, while minimizing overhead in our customers' codebases
• Help grow the team and shape the engineering culture of a distributed team based mainly in the Madrid and Lisbon offices

Benefits

• 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