Manager I, Engineering - Experiments

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong full-stack and frontend engineers.
• Help them grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop.
• Own delivery for the Experimentation App from planning through production, balancing speed with quality in a fast-paced environment.
• Set technical direction in partnership with your team and our statistics engineers, engaging credibly on architecture and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Product, Design, and customers directly to shape requirements and turn customer and sales input into roadmap.
• Foster a culture of fast iteration and high engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and blameless postmortems.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier talent as the team scales.

  Who You Are

  • 2-3 years experience as a people manager, or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally you have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, and hiring.
  • 5+ years experience building and shipping software, with a strong technical background that lets you engage credibly on architecture and tradeoffs even if you are no longer writing most of the code.
  • Experience shipping products in a fast-paced environment, comfortable balancing speed with quality and making decisions with customer input as a primary signal.
  • You are energized by ambiguity and a large roadmap, and you can help your team prioritize and sequence work to deliver consistently.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills. You use empathy, collaboration, and clear communication to work with engineers and non-technical partners alike.

    Benefits and Growth

    • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
    • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
    • Inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
    • Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
    • Competitive global benefits and giving programs
    • Reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000—$240,000 USD

      About Datadog

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