Manager I, Engineering - Change Tracking

Change Tracking is a product / platform team that is part of the APM organization whose mission is to identify and collect high-impact changes or disruptions that could affect system health and use this information to reduce the MTTR for incidents. During an incident, one of the first questions often asked is, "What changed?"—and that's exactly what this team aims to answer. The team operates at the intersection of product and platform development. 

As a product team, team surfaces changes on key UI elements such as service pages, monitors, and dashboards, ensuring visibility for stakeholders. As a platform team, Change tracking assists root cause analysis systems like Watchdog and Bits AI. 

As a manager, you will play an active role in shaping the roadmap for automated root cause analysis by collaboration with multiple stakeholder teams. You will be have high impact in guiding the product, design and engineering decisions

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:

• Lead and mentor a team of experienced software engineers, fostering their career growth while ensuring high team performance
• Drive the technical roadmap in collaboration with your team, product managers, and design teams ensuring it aligns with company objectives and directly contributes to improving customer satisfaction
• Engage strategically with complex technical problems and work with your team to produce well-defined and actionable plans
• Be a core contributor and reviewer of code, lead design decisions, and participate in our  well-scoped on-call rotation
• Understand the broader business context to align technical decisions with business goals, supporting long-term objectives and driving innovation
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Datadog’s engineering management team
  

Who You Are: 

• An experienced software engineering leader with experience building distributed systems and operating infrastructure with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance
• A proven leader with the ability to manage team dynamics, set goals, provide feedback, and foster a positive and productive work environment
• A capable project manager who can plan, organize, and oversee multiple software engineering projects
• An excellent communicator who is comfortable interacting with team members, stakeholders, and upper management alike. 
• You possess a product-mindset and have comfort working with product managers and customers to scope out roadmaps and development plans. 
• Experienced in a full-stack environment with some exposure to Data Science or Machine Learning is helpful.
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

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.

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.