Engineering Manager - Chaos Platform

Chaos Platform is an SRE team in our Resilience Engineering organization whose mission is to  enable engineering teams at Datadog to improve and maintain the resilience of their services. We offer engineers a library of different failure scenarios that they can use to verify if their systems operate as expected by embracing a mindset of experimentation and the practices of Chaos Engineering. Being able to simulate realistic failures in a complex ecosystem like Datadog, while limiting the blast radius in a safe way, requires our engineers to be strong software engineers with a good awareness of how distributed systems can break at scale.

As an Engineering Manager, you will help us realize this mission of enabling Chaos Engineering by continuing to build out our Chaos Platform and scaling the team by hiring and growing our engineering talent. You will play an instrumental role in helping us build more adoption and impact on company-wide projects, and actively drive collaboration between the team and key stakeholders.

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 and mentor a team of experienced SWEs around the globe who are passionate about building a culture of reliability at Datadog. Help engineers grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop. 
• Build exciting new features for our self-service Chaos Engineering platform to solve real user problems and ensure our platform remains relevant and well-integrated within the wider Datadog ecosystem.
• Advocate for and build out Chaos Engineering as a practice by focusing the team’s efforts on empowering engineers at Datadog to verify their resilience to failures, including in production.
• Work with stakeholders across Datadog to build consensus on shared topics around resilience – for example collaborating with infrastructure teams to ensure we have consistent graceful degradation and disaster recovery solutions, or security teams to ensure adversary testing works for engineers.
• Build a culture of continuous learning by incentivizing engineers to invest in chaos experiments, team-level game days, and ways to proactively discover failures before they happen in production. 

Who You Are

• 2-3 years experience as a people manager or as a technical leader with strong mentorship skills. Ideally candidates will have experience in career development, performance management, tracking and optimizing team velocity, sprint planning, OKRs, and hiring.
• 2-3 years experience in SRE, Resilience, Chaos Engineering or any domain that adopts a mindset of proactively breaking software in order to learn. Although we create impact through our self-service platforms, our ultimate goal is to enable the company to build resilience.
• Technical pragmatism and an ability to help the team reason about trade-offs around implementation. You will often review the decisions and RFCs from senior engineers, and you will need to blend both your technical and business acumen to do this. 
• Strong distributed systems knowledge, especially around Kubernetes and how controllers are designed, implemented and operated. We collaborate a lot with our infrastructure partners, so a solid understanding of Linux internals (e.g. control groups, namespaces and networking stack) will serve you well leading a technical team.
• Strong stakeholder management skills. This will involve using your empathy, collaboration, and communication skills in English to work remotely with people across teams. Because our programs touch lots of different parts of the business, we frequently collaborate with stakeholders across Datadog and need to motivate teams to work together towards a shared goal.