The opportunity
Husky is what we call the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of our Event Platform, which powers dozens of Datadog’s most popular products – Logs, RUM, APM, Cloud Network Monitoring, Netflow, and many more. Husky was built from the ground up at Datadog…
What you'll do
Manage a team of software engineers ranging from new grads to senior: engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact
Be a technical leader of the team; while the role may not involve frequent: hands on coding, you’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality
Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, ensure smooth: implementation, and prioritize new platform capabilities.
Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational excellence
Scale a petabyte-scale database to an exabyte-scale one
A software engineer at heart with previous experience leading software: engineering teams and a track record of delivering high-quality software products, preferably with some hands on experience with Java or Go and a background in distributed systems.
What they're looking for
- Experienced with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post: mortems, and driving remediation efforts
- An excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, with experience in: career development and performance management.
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
