Engineering Team Lead - Identity and Authentication
About Datadog:
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The team:
We develop a platform for high throughput, low latency authentication and authorization for Datadog users. The team manages identity for large customers across multiple data centers handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second while assuring fine grained access control across a complex web of resources.
The opportunity:
We are looking for a team lead that can take on a distributed, high-scale, complex problem area in a quickly growing team. We want to build the best platform for other teams to leverage while providing a secure and simple experience for our customers to manage access to their data.
As the team lead you will help scale and guide a team of talented engineers to build and extend the identity platform. You will take ownership of multiple products, ensuring they meet the needs today and in the future with the understanding that if these systems go down, access to all of Datadog may be compromised. The decisions you make will have a significant impact on Datadogs customers trust in our products.
You will:
- Build secure and high-throughput authentication mechanisms using modern protocols
- Help evolve a complex role-based access management schema requiring low latency
- Collaborate actively with other teams in a globally distributed organization
- Support a talented team of engineers in their day to day work
- Plan the most important projects to work on next
Requirements:
- You have significant experience in one or more languages
- You have managed or held a leadership role on a team of software engineers
- You have experience leading complex projects from start to finish
- You value code simplicity and performance
- You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
Bonus points:
- You have experience with best practices around Authorizations and Access Management
- You have experience working with other teams to deliver projects
- You have significant experience with distributed systems
- You have significant experience with Go or Python
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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