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Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage
Lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team at Datadog, focusing on essential configuration storage and distribution systems.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 week ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
20% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the manager leads a team of engineers focused on developing and maintaining critical configuration storage systems that support various services at Datadog. The position requires strong expertise in distributed systems, coding, and incident management, along with the ability to foster collaboration across teams. Ideal candidates will have a background in platform engineering and a proactive approach to operational excellence. Datadog emphasizes a culture of creativity and teamwork, operating in a hybrid work environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze September 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page October 23, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 31% of 13 comparable lead management roles in United States that list distributed systems we track (median $192,000 across 6 companies). See distributed systems salary trends
- distributed systems appears in 2.9% of 630 comparable lead management roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage role remote?
- It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in New York, New York, USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Datadog lists $192,000–$240,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Datadog is hiring for this position in New York, New York, USA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: configuration distribution, distributed systems, resource protection.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Datadog targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Manager I, Engineering - Coordination Systems Storage role at Datadog.
From the original posting
Coordination Systems provides foundational distributed systems building blocks for internal Datadog platforms. Our services cover sharding, consensus, resource protection, configuration distribution, and much more.
We are looking for a manager to lead the Coordination Systems - Storage team. This team provides essential configuration storage and distribution systems that are depended upon by almost every service and pod at Datadog. We power critical runtime configuration (e.g. feature flags), complex control planes (e.g. dynamic sharding configuration), and much more.
Storage is one of four subteams within Coordination Systems. If successful, the candidate will have opportunities to lead other growing and impactful areas such as Resource Protection.
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: (Describe role responsibilities here/max 6 bullets)
- Lead a core team of 5 engineers (distributed, with majority in NYC)
- Lead ceremonies, prioritize and delegate project
- Stay hands-on with the code, e.g. isolated features, small remediations, investigation follow ups
- Stay actively involved in operations, incidents, root cause analysis, etc.
- Constantly promote a culture of operational excellence, organizing gamedays, conducting operational reviews, staying proactive with reliability
Who You Are: (Describe role qualifications here/max 6 bullets)
- Strong distributed systems skills, able to understand and account for a variety of failure modes, well-versed in end-to-end o11y, validation testing, simulation setup, etc.
- Worked on platform teams before, providing critical infrastructure to internal stakeholders
- Experienced in handling significant incidents, both as a responder and follow-up owner
- Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills
- Strong foundation in coding, experienced with performance optimizations and profiling
Benefits and Growth: (Describe opportunities offered here)
- 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
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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
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