Engineering Manager, Husky

About Husky

Husky is Datadog's distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of its Event Platform. It powers dozens of popular Datadog products, including Logs, RUM, APM, Cloud Network Monitoring, and Netflow. Built from the ground up, Husky efficiently stores and queries massive volumes of event data, ensuring full queryability within seconds of arrival.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager on the Husky team, you will lead one of several closely collaborating teams focused on Husky's internals. Your team will own the full lifecycle of events stored by the Event Platform, from managing ingestion of over 100 million events per second with exactly-once semantics, to optimizing the persistence layer with fast compaction, and building the metadata service that supports hundreds of thousands of queries per second. You will be responsible for the growth and success of a team that continuously meets new scalability requirements driven by Datadog’s expanding customer base and product suite.

What You’ll Do

• Manage a team of software engineers, from new grads to senior engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact.
• Act as a technical leader, reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests to ensure high-quality output.
• Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, ensure smooth implementation, and prioritize new platform capabilities.
• Share on-call responsibilities and foster a culture of operational excellence.
• Scale a petabyte-scale database towards exabyte-scale.

Who You Are

• A software engineer at heart with previous experience leading software engineering teams and a track record of delivering high-quality software products, preferably with hands-on experience in 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, experienced in career development and performance management.

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; 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.

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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