Manager I, Engineering - Data Visualization Explorations

Summary

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. The Engineering Manager will lead the Data Visualizations Explorations team, setting product direction and coaching team members while driving projects that enhance data visualization capabilities for observability engineers.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team
• Coach and develop engineers at various levels
• Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more
• Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers to goals. Identify opportunities to appropriately reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages
• Deeply understand the needs of our customers and other Datadog products we work with. Participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members to adopt these practices as well
• Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage and remediation, incident response, and gathering and analyzing performance telemetry for our widgets

Skills

• At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React
• Excellent communication skills, including at delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
• Product-oriented: you put solving customer problems first and know how to ship features quickly and iterate on them
• Passionate about data visualization and building intuitive, performant user interfaces
• Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team's work
• Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community through conference talks, blog posts, open source projects, teaching/mentorship, or other practices

Qualifications

Must Haves

• At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React
• Excellent communication skills, including at delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback
• Product-oriented: you put solving customer problems first and know how to ship features quickly and iterate on them
• Passionate about data visualization and building intuitive, performant user interfaces
• Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team's work

Nice to Haves

• Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community through conference talks, blog posts, open source projects, teaching/mentorship, or other practices

Benefits

• 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
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• A 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• A discounted employee stock purchase plan