Manager I, Engineering - Data Visualization Explorations

Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team

Coach and develop engineers at various levels

Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more.

Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers to goals. Identify opportunities to appropriately reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages.

Deeply understand the needs of our customers and other Datadog products we work with. Participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members to adopt these practices as well.

Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage and remediation, incident response, and gathering and analyzing performance telemetry for our widgets.

At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting

Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including familiarity with frontend frameworks such as React

Excellent communication skills, including at delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback

Product-oriented: you put solving customer problems first and know how to ship features quickly and iterate on them

Passionate about data visualization and building intuitive, performant user interfaces

Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team's work

[Bonus] Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community through conference talks, blog posts, open source projects, teaching/mentorship, or other practices.

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.