Austin Lai sat down with Marie-Laure Bardonnet, a Senior Engineering Manager leading engineering for Datadog's Log Management team. Marie-Laure has been at Datadog since 2017 and started on the Dashboards team in Paris before transitioning to the Logs backend team. She found the environment to be ideal for growth and learning new challenges. As an individual contributor, she then became a team lead and later an Engineering Manager II, managing all of the backend and frontend Logs teams. Marie-Laure's day-to-day involves crafting objectives and key results with her team, maintaining a balance between product and technical roadmaps, and helping people grow in their roles. She believes that career growth is about finding a balance between doing work you love, learning new things, and growing as a person. Datadog's culture has remained consistent despite scaling to over 5,000 employees, with pillars including the people and postmortem mindset. Marie-Laure's upbringing influenced her engineering background through preparatory classes in France, which instilled core values such as autonomy and critical thinking. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, who was born after she joined Datadog. She advises her past self to be ambitious, ask questions, and overcome impostor syndrome, and encourages current interns and college students to show up, do the job, learn as they go, and grow.