Manager I, Engineering Language Platform

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is one of Datadogs premier products that helps developers see inside complex distributed systems. Our SDKs are both the delivery vehicle for APM and the platform on which all of Datadogs service and app based products (e.g. Application Security Management Profiling Data Stream Monitoring) are delivered. We believe our SDKs are one of our technical moats and are a key competitive advantage for APM and Datadog more broadly. Theyre also open-source.

Leading the evolution of our SDKs is a technically demanding and highly collaborative effort. Youll work with language experts to deliver cutting-edge observability products across our 9 supported languages with industry leading performance and a world class developer experience. Youll rethink our SDKs architecture APIs data models and protocol to meet Datadogs current needs and scale all while building in the open. And youll grow your teams capacity by fostering a culture focused on customer needs continuous learning and innovation.

Were looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who cares as much about technical excellence as empowering other engineering teams.

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 youll do

• Lead grow and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers coaching giving direct feedback and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders owning outcomes
• Own team delivery and productivity: planning milestones reviews
• Collaborate with Product teams to:
• Reshape and grow our platform capabilities to enable product teams
• Define and deliver industry leading open-source zero-touch APM instrumentation
• Stay technically close to the work apply strong technical judgment set a high standard for quality contribute code where it matters most and keep quality and architecture high
• Build strong relationships and drive alignment across the language teams and product backend
• Shape team identity and culture

Who you are

• An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
• A strong and empathetic leader with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams to deliver high quality software
• An ability pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details
• You have significant programming experience in one or more of: Go C Rust
• Bonus: If you possess experience with one or more of these skills: systems programming experience observability tooling experience experience shipping client side software Go runtime expertise

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth

• 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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