Engineering Manager I - Test Optimization Libraries

Datadog is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Test Optimization - Libraries team, which represents part of the “shift-left” expansion of the Datadog Platform. Test Optimization is a product that automatically instruments and traces every software test in our customers' CI workflows, giving them complete visibility into test health, performance, reliability, and flakiness. Test Optimization is part of the Software Delivery suite, which aims at helping software engineering teams do more, faster, in a secure way.

We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to cultivate this team of talented engineers while also helping to shape the product roadmap to ensure Datadog’s full product suite becomes more and more developer-friendly. You will drive innovative and ambitious initiatives to further expand the Test Optimization product by expanding our libraries' capabilities, supporting new languages/frameworks, and making it easier for our customers to onboard, to accelerate their time to value with the Test Optimization product.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and develop a talented team of libraries engineers, who are responsible for building the product end-to-end, from data collection to data visualization, directly managing 7 engineers
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews, and coding.
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Work closely with product management and other engineering managers to support powerful user workflows that best leverage the vast amount of information being collected
• Ensure the development and continuous improvement of our SDKs, ensuring they are easy to use and powerful, while minimizing overhead in our customers' codebases
• Help grow the team and shape the engineering culture of a distributed team based mainly in the Madrid and Lisbon offices

Who You Are: 

• You have experience working with low-level libraries used by thousands of engineers to enhance their own code
• You have previous experience, such as serving as a tech lead or people manager, leading software engineering teams
• You are an excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and you have the ability to build and lead high-performing teams, and setting priorities effectively, while mentoring junior and senior engineers to support their career growth
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product management and other engineering managers to set the vision and strategy for your projects
• You have hands-on experience with one or two of the languages we support, ideally JavaScript and Python, and a willingness to spend some time being hands-on and participating in an on-call rotation.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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, 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.