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Manager I, Engineering - Husky

Datadog· Engineering
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Parisfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role leading a team working on Husky, the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at Datadog's Event Platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and collaboration with product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of software engineers ranging from new grads to senior engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact
  • Be a technical leader of the team; review architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests to ensure high-quality shipping
  • Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, ensure smooth implementation, and prioritize new platform capabilities
  • Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence
  • Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one

Qualifications

  • A software engineer at heart with previous experience leading software engineering teams and a track record of delivering high-quality software products, preferably with some hands on experience with Java or Go and a background in distributed systems
  • Experienced with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
  • An excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, with experience in career development and performance management

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsLeadership / people managementOn-call incident management
Nice to have:JavaGo

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
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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