Manager I, Engineering - Husky
Core
Lead a team building and scaling a distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store (Husky) that powers Datadog's core observability products like Logs, RUM, and APM.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Distributed Systems)
Builds
A petabyte-to-exabyte scale event ingestion and query platform
Domain
Observability / Distributed Systems / Big Data
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Team leadership, distributed systems architecture, Java, Go, incident response, performance management
Preferred skills
Hands-on experience with Java or Go, scaling databases to exabyte scale
Technologies
Java, Go, columnar storage formats
Responsibilities
Manage software engineers from new grads to seniors, review architecture decisions and pull requests, partner with product teams on platform capabilities, share on-call duties, scale the database infrastructure
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
