Manager I, Technical Escalations Engineering - Paris

The Team

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos, presentations, technical evaluations, and ongoing support. Technical solutions is a growing global team that collaborates constantly to share knowledge and continuously advance our technical skillset.

The Opportunity

Join a diverse team of traditional and non-traditional backgrounds, working together to solve complex problems the right way. You will lead a team immersed in a startup-like environment where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog.

You Will

Manage, develop, and mentor a fast-paced team of Solutions Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into the 400+ integrations that Datadog works with

Ensure successful onboarding of new Solutions Engineers

Help triage Solutions Engineering queues and work with Product and Engineering on urgent matters

Review and help prioritize Solutions Engineering escalations

Dispatch customer requests throughout the day as part of a queue rotation schedule

Oversee demo training and assist in demo certification

Assist with incident response during outages/incidents, communicating with customers and providing our internal teams with info that we’re getting first-hand from those customers

Build out documentation and knowledge base articles for a variety of technologies

You Are

Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team

Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning

A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach

A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux

Able to work a rotating schedule that requires weekend availability

Bonus Points

CS or Engineering majors

Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.)

Why You Should Apply

Generous and competitive global and US benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan

Continuous career development and pathing opportunities

Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space

Best in breed onboarding

Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally

Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

About Datadog

Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS product is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stack, allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally. Given the resilience of cloud technologies and importance placed today in digital operations and agility, Datadog continues to innovate and is well positioned for the long term.

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog

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