Manager I, Engineering - Husky

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In the posting’s own words

As an Engineering Manager on Husky, you will lead one of a few closely collaborating teams that work directly on Husky’s internals. We own the full lifecycle of events stored by our Event Platform – whether it’s managing the ingestion of over 100 million events per second exactly-once , optimizing the persistence layer with lightning-fast compaction , tweaking our columnar format, timely deletion across hundreds of thousands of customer tables, or building the metadata service that enables hundreds of thousands of queries per second – you will be responsible for the growth and success of a team constantly meeting new scalability requirements driven by Datadog’s growing customer base and suite of products.

What it asks for · 3

• A software engineer at heart with previous experience leading software engineering teams and a track record of delivering high-quality software products, preferably with some hands on experience with Java or Go and a background in distributed systems.
• Experienced with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
• An excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, with experience in career development and performance management.

What the job covers

• Manage a team of software engineers ranging from new grads to senior engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact
• Be a technical leader of the team; while the role may not involve frequent hands on coding, you’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality
• Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, ensure smooth implementation, and prioritize new platform capabilities.
• Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence
• Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one

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Words the posting leans on

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• engineers6×
• event6×
• experience6×
• products6×
• ensure5×
• career development4×
• hands4×
• husky4×
• leader4×
• leading4×
• on-call4×
• platform4×
• second3×
• architecture decisions2×
• background distributed2×

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