Manager I, Engineering - Husky

Engineering Manager role leading a team working on Husky, Datadog’s petabyte-scale columnar event store. Responsibilities include managing engineers across levels, reviewing architecture decisions and RFCs, partnering with product teams to evaluate use cases, handling on-call and incident response, and driving scalability from a petabyte-scale database toward exabyte-scale. Emphasizes leadership, career development, architectural oversight, operational excellence, and collaboration across distributed teams. Familiarity with Java or Go and distributed systems is preferred; hands-on coding not always required, with focus on high-quality software delivery and team growth. Benefits include equity, ESPP, mentorship, and inclusion initiatives, with a hybrid workplace model.