Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines (OP)

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Observability Pipelines (OP) is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product. As an Engineering Manager on the team, you'll own people management and engineering execution for one of OP's core missions, spanning areas like Integrations (ingesting from and routing to the many source and destination systems customers rely on), streaming insights, cost control, or pipeline capabilities, reliability and scalability. You'll partner directly with Product to help shape the roadmap, and work closely with your peer EMs and senior ICs to define how OP operates and grows. This is an opportunity to build your management craft while having real influence over the technical direction of a fast-growing product area.

What it asks for · 5

• Experienced managing engineers directly, comfortable owning a team’s operating rhythm end-to-end, from planning through execution and stakeholder communication to incident and on-call ownership
• Have a technical background in distributed systems and data infrastructure
• Have experience with on-premises or customer-installed software concepts
• A product-minded partner to have on the team — you enjoy working with Product on strategy
• Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems

What the job covers

• Own people management and engineering execution
• Establish a strong operating rhythm for the team
• Drive high standards for on-call rotations and incident response
• Partner with Product on the roadmap, balancing product priorities with technical realities
• Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers on your team

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• pipeline4×
• grow3×
• partner3×
• systems3×
• technical3×
• area2×
• build2×
• data2×
• directly2×
• engineering execution2×
• engineers2×
• experience2×
• incident2×
• on-call2×
• on-premise2×

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