The company:
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for
engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and
teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per
day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and
application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering
culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard
problems the right way.
The team:
The Integrations Team at Datadog builds open-source software to
connect with the vast ecosystem our customers use. The team instruments
everything from programming languages to OS counters to databases to
cloud providers, and creates tools to make it easy for external
contributors to create integrations.
The opportunity:
Easily configurable integrations are a key part of why our customers
love Datadog. As Engineering Team Lead for the Integrations team, you’ll
manage a distributed team of talented engineers who will expand our
scope of integrations to include everything developers use to build
modern software—from the latest technology to tried-and-true workhorses.
You will work with product managers to decide which integrations will
be built by the Integrations team, and work with a community of
open-source developers as they contribute to our ecosystem.
You will:
- Manage the engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
- Build the open-source tools that connect cutting edge, industry leading software to Datadog
- Ensure the team consistently ships high quality code and architecture
- Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver
Requirements
- You have been building applications for 4+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
- You have managed a team of software engineers
- You excel with several low-level and scripting languages
- You have a track record of open source contributions
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
Bonus points
- You are a master at Python, Java, C++ or Go
- You have mastered Linux, from the system to the libs to the common apps
- You have mastered the art of managing a remote team
- You have development experience on Windows
- You have development experience on Unix OSes
Is this you? Let's chat!