Manager I, Engineering - OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is revolutionizing modern observability by providing a standards based foundation that is unlocking innovation across the industry. Adoption is skyrocketing and customers, vendors, platform providers, and OSS projects are all rethinking their strategies as a result. At Datadog we want to be at the forefront of the revolution. The OpenTelemetry team’s mission is to make sure Datadog provides the best observability experience for OpenTelemetry users on the market and ensure we remain the premier observability solution in the age of OpenTelemetry. 

This is a big challenge that cuts across multiple domains. As the team’s manager you’ll partner with Product and Engineering teams across Datadog to align and deliver our technical and product strategy around OpenTelemetry. You’ll work actively with the OpenTelemetry community (where we’re a top 10 contributor) to help shape observability across the industry and ensure Datadog and OpenTelemetry work together seamlessly. And you’ll develop and deploy new components and technologies to facilitate Datadog’s journey to become OTel native. 

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who cares as much about product experience and business value as they do about open source and OpenTelemetry. You must be customer driven and have the technical expertise to guide and land complex questions of technical strategy and implementation details. You should be excited by the prospect of working directly with customers and the community to develop and refine your vision for OpenTelemetry at Datadog. This is a high impact role that will help shape Datadog’s instrumentation and OpenTelemetry strategy for years to come. 

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

What You'll Do: 

• Lead a team of Engineers and work with Product and Engineering partners across Datadog to define and deliver an industry leading observability experience for OpenTelemetry users
• Facilitate our partnership with the OpenTelemetry community
• Leverage analytics data and stay up to date with the latest in the world of OpenTelemetry to identify opportunities for Datadog to deliver value-added experiences that differentiate Datadog from our competition

Who You Are: 

• An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping 
• Have a passion for OpenTelemetry and OSS software development
• Deep experience working on or with observability tooling
• Customer focused and thinks in terms of experiences, not features
• Highly collaborative
• An ability pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details (and articulate how one impacts the other)
• Possesses experience with one or more of: OpenTelemetry, observability tooling, OSS software development
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience

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.