Manager II, Engineering - Observability Pipelines

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for an Engineering Manager II to own and grow the Observability Pipelines engineering org at a pivotal moment in the product's lifecycle. Observability Pipelines is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product, with a lot still to build as it grows and scales. It sits at the center of a fast-consolidating market, is central to Datadog's data pipeline optimization story for Logs and Metrics customers. This is a build-and-scale opportunity: you'll grow the management and technical leadership layers, co-own the roadmap with Product, and define how this org operates as it continues to expand.

What it asks for · 6

• Experienced managing managers across distributed teams, with a track record of raising the bar on how those teams operate, not just delivering through them
• Background in distributed systems and high-throughput data infrastructure, enough to guide architectural and build-vs-buy decisions at the domain level
• Familiar with on-premises or customer-installed software and the operational tradeoffs it introduces - support escalations are more complex, incidents are harder to diagnose, and environments vary enormously
• A strategic partner to Product - you help set the roadmap, not just execute against it
• Commercially aware: you understand the competitive landscape and can connect engineering decisions to business outcomes
• Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems is a strong plus

What the job covers

• Directly manage the OP org including EM1s across NYC and Paris, set technical direction, and be the connective tissue across a distributed team
• Build out the management and technical leadership layers as the org continues to grow - today ~20 ICs
• Partner directly with Product to co-own the roadmap and strategy, helping decide where OP’s engineering investment goes next
• Set and evolve the operating rhythm across the group: planning cadence, on-call and incident standards, and cross-team alignment
• Own key cross-org relationships with the SaaS Logs Pipelines team, the BYOC team, and the Vector open-source community
• Coach managers and senior engineers, and build the succession and growth plans that let the org scale beyond you

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Words the posting leans on

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• distributed3×
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• set3×
• co-own2×
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• data pipeline2×
• decisions2×
• directly2×

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