Senior Backend Software Engineer – Enterprise, Commerce
Hopper
Scala
Manager II, Engineering - Runtime
Datadog
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $234,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
GoJavaPythonRust
About the role
- Lead multiple runtime teams and a group of staff engineers building:
- Language specific profiling libraries (Java, Go, Python and more)
- eBPF profiling capabilities
- Crash tracking and runtime instrumentation features
- Partner closely with product management, design, our design partners and other APM teams to set and follow up on roadmaps and help prioritize initiatives
- Mentor and grow engineering managers and staff engineers, building healthy, high-performing teams distributed across multiple geographies
- Ensure that our runtime integrations are performant, stable and deliver high-value insights to customers at scale
Requirements
- Proven track record scaling engineering teams: hiring, coaching, succession planning, and building distributed team structures.
- Experience managing managers and/or staff engineers in deeply technical domains.
- Strong technical credibility in runtime or systems engineering, ideally with the JVM, Go, CPython, Rust, LLVM, or similar).
- Excellent communicator (English), able to represent team strategy to executives, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders and communities.
- Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space.
- Customer empathy and product intuition: you can translate enterprise developer pain points into actionable runtime improvements.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaGoPythoneBPFruntime instrumentationsystems engineeringJVMCPythonRustLLVM
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcustomer empathyproduct intuitioncoachingsuccession planningstrategic representationcross-functional collaborationarchitectural review
