Datadog

Manager I, Engineering - Data Visualization Explorations

Datadog$192K — $240K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2 years of people management experience in software engineering or similar fields
  • Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills with React framework experience
  • Excellent communication abilities for delivering feedback
  • Product-focused mindset prioritizing customer problem-solving
  • Passion for data visualization and user interface design
  • Proven sense of ownership over team's work
  • Bonus: Engaged in data visualization or software engineering community activities

Responsibilities

  • Plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team in collaboration with Product Management and Design
  • Coach and develop engineers of varying experience levels
  • Facilitate strong cross-team communication and design best practices
  • Identify and address cross-team dependencies and project blockers
  • Engage with customers to grasp their needs and train team members in customer-centric practices
  • Establish and uphold rigorous operations practices for bug triage and performance analysis

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development and career pathing opportunities
  • Intradepartmental mentoring and buddy program for networking
  • Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds for employee resource groups
  • Access to internal panel discussions on inclusion
  • Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents ages 6+
  • Comprehensive competitive global benefits
Full Job Description
This Engineering Manager will lead the Data Visualizations Explorations team within the Graphing organization, setting product direction, and coaching and developing team members. They will staff and drive projects that build end to end experiences for Datadog's core users: observability engineers. This includes extending the capabilities of core widgets like Hostmap and Geomap Visualizations and finding innovative ways to leverage existing Datadog data sources. This role also involves close partnerships with other product teams to deeply understand customer needs and deliver compelling data experiences.

What You'll Do:
  • 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.

Who You Are:
  • 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
  • [Bonus] Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community through conference talks, blog posts, open source projects, teaching/mentorship, or other practices.


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.

#LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$192,000-$240,000 USD

#LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$192,000-$240,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. The company was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and is headquartered in New York City. Datadog's platform assists organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across dynamic or high-scale infrastructures. The company's SaaS-based data analytics platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of customers' entire technology stack. Datadog's customers include Airbnb, Twilio, and The Washington Post.
Learn more about Datadog
Size
3,200 employees
Market Cap
$22.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$24.5 million
Founded
2010
Revenue
$603.4 million
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