Manager I, Engineering- Resource Graph

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• Strategic Leadership: Drive the vision and strategy for the teams, ensuring alignment with the overall goals.
• Team Oversight: Provide guidance and support to the ICs in the team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Technical Excellence: Ensure the teams maintain high standards of code quality, performance, and reliability across all systems and services.
• Innovation and Improvement: Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement within the datastore and serving domains, promoting best practices and new technologies.
• Talent Management: Lead hiring efforts to attract and retain top talent, ensuring the growth and development of team members through mentoring and professional development opportunities.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with other teams and stakeholders to align on priorities, address challenges, and deliver high-impact solutions.
• You have proven experience managing teams that shipped and operated business-critical systems.
• You have demonstrated ability in designing, building, and operating distributed systems to solve problems at scale.
• You have experience working with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune or PuppyGraph.
• Managed a team for over 2 years.
• You are an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• You are comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, able to adapt strategies and solutions in response to emerging challenges and opportunities.
• Skilled in setting team goals and prioritizing features that align with business needs.
• Effective at giving and receiving feedback, enhancing the work environment and team collaborations.
• Possess excellent teamwork, communication, and technical problem-solving skills to contribute to multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated leadership in guiding teams through the full design process from concept to launch, with minimal oversight.
• Maintain a growth mindset, actively seeking learning opportunities and new challenges.
• Able to clearly articulate design decisions and strategies
• Proven ability to envision long-term goals and focus efforts to achieve them.
• Efficient in optimizing team workflows and processes to enhance team output and collaboration.
• Known for balancing fast iteration, strategic ambiguity, and high-quality outcomes in a dynamic business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus points: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
• 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