Engineering Manager I

Product Analytics aims to help developers, product managers and designers understand their users, take data-oriented product decisions and evaluate the impact of technical issues on their customer base. As the Engineering Manager for the Product Analytics Backend team, you'll join a new, fast growing product area. You will support scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the product roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple technical challenges: creating a robust and flexible query system to support innovative visualizations, ingest and enrich user journey data from multiple sources and tailor our product automatically to the user's setup.
- 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**:

- Manage and grow the Product Analytics Backend team, directly managing 4-6 engineers
- Define our backend technical roadmap in alignment with product goals and the frontend team
- Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and query solutions to our needs
- Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
- Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding

**Who You Are**:

- A Software Engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
- Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
- Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
- You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners.
- Strong technician, particularly with Go, Java or SQL, who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
- 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**:(Describe opportunities offered here)
- 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._

**About Datadog**:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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