Manager I, Engineering - Logs Query

Engineering Manager - Logs Query

Logs Query is the face of Logs, one of the three product pillars of Datadog. Our team is responsible for the features, capabilities, and overall experience of the backend read path of logs. Our mission is to provide a performant, featureful, and cost effective query experience that meets the needs of many different user personas - including both business and security analysts. As an Engineering Manager for Logs Query, you'll focus on our Flex Logs product offering - a cost effective offering that decouples the cost of storage and compute. You’ll lead , technically diverse team, driving the future vision of Flex, maintaining high-quality engineering standards, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. You'll have the opportunity to steer open-ended, multi-quarter initiatives and cultivate the next generation of technical leaders, making this role ideal for someone looking to significantly grow their management and strategic impact in a critical area of Datadog’s business.

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:

• Manage a 3-5 engineering team responsible for the features and experience of the Flex Logs product.


• Provide technical leadership by identifying, addressing, and removing roadblocks to maintain team velocity and code quality.


• Collaborate closely with the Product team to enhance our Flex Logs experience.


• Lead strategic, multi-quarter initiatives, navigating ambiguity to establish clear goals and execution paths.


• Foster professional growth and career advancement for team members, including performance reviews and promotions.


• Participate and lead by example in the team's 24/7 on-call rotation to maintain service reliability.
  

Who You Are:

• Proven experience (1+ years) leading a team of 4+ engineers with an emphasis on customer-driven improvements.


• Skilled collaborator, able to effectively coordinate efforts across multiple teams and functions.


• Demonstrated technical judgment and ability to guide technical decisions across back-end systems (primarily backend services, in programming languages such as Java and Go).


• Passionate about mentoring and growing engineers, actively developing the next generation of technical leaders.


• Comfortable and motivated by working in a fast-paced, high-growth technology organization.

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