Manager II, Engineering - Observability Pipelines
Core
Lead and scale the Observability Pipelines engineering organization, defining technical direction and operating rhythms for on-premise telemetry infrastructure.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Management & Technical Leadership)
Builds
On-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product (Logs and Metrics)
Domain
Observability, Distributed Systems, High-throughput Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
Production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Managing managers across distributed teams, Distributed systems architecture, On-premises software operations, Strategic product partnership, Cross-org relationship management, Succession planning
Preferred skills
Rust-based data pipeline systems, High-performance systems
Technologies
Rust, Datadog Observability Platform
Responsibilities
Direct management of EM1s and ~20 ICs across NYC and Paris, Co-own roadmap with Product, Set operating standards (planning, on-call, incidents), Manage cross-org relationships with SaaS Logs Pipelines and Vector community, Coach managers and engineers for growth
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management focus
