Manager II, Engineering - Observability Pipelines

<p>We're looking for an Engineering Manager II to own and grow the Observability Pipelines engineering org at a pivotal moment in the product's lifecycle. Observability Pipelines is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product, with a lot still to build as it grows and scales. It sits at the center of a fast-consolidating market, is central to Datadog's data pipeline optimization story for Logs and Metrics customers. This is a build-and-scale opportunity: you'll grow the management and technical leadership layers, co-own the roadmap with Product, and define how this org operates as it continues to expand.</p> <p><em>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.</em></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Directly manage the OP org including EM1s across NYC and Paris, set technical direction, and be the connective tissue across a distributed team</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Build out the management and technical leadership layers as the org continues to grow - today ~20 ICs</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Partner directly with Product to co-own the roadmap and strategy, helping decide where OP’s engineering investment goes next</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Set and evolve the operating rhythm across the group: planning cadence, on-call and incident standards, and cross-team alignment</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Own key cross-org relationships with the SaaS Logs Pipelines team, the BYOC team, and the Vector open-source community</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Coach managers and senior engineers, and build the succession and growth plans that let the org scale beyond you</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Experienced managing managers across distributed teams, with a track record of raising the bar on how those teams operate, not just delivering through them</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; Background in distributed systems and high-throughput data infrastructure, enough to guide architectural and build-vs-buy decisions at the domain level</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Familiar with on-premises or customer-installed software and the operational tradeoffs it introduces - support escalations are more complex, incidents are harder to diagnose, and environments vary enormously</li> <li>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;