Datadog's APM Platform builds the foundations that let our dd-trace library engineers ship reliable, high-performance instrumentation across 15+ products used inside our customers' applications. As the Engineering Manager for our Developer Experience, Performance, and Release teams, your goals will be to help hundreds of engineers ship high-quality code faster and with confidence. You'll own the tooling and platforms that keep our development loop fast, prevent performance regressions before release, and gate customer-impacting issues through gradual rollouts and customer-simulation environments while continuously innovating. This is a high-leverage leadership role for someone who wants to grow their scope across multiple technical domains while making a measurable, company-wide impact on engineering productivity and product quality.
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, coach, and grow the careers of engineers across three teams.
- Set the vision and roadmap for developer productivity; Drive our performance engineering practice and own the release experience.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, and internal CI teams across Datadog to understand how they build software and continuously increase the efficiency of our workflows.
- Scale and evolve fault-tolerant, tier-0 CI and CD systems to support growth into new and more complex environments.
Who You Are:
- An experienced people manager who invests in career growth, mentoring, and building healthy, high-trust teams.
- A strong project-delivery leader with a track record of roadmap planning and shipping in collaboration with partner teams.
- Skilled in system design, with the ability to set and raise the technical bar for reliable, high-scale systems, challenging complexity and ensuring the team delivers highest value for the investment.
- You thrive partnering across many stakeholders, internal customers, platform providers, and sister teams.
- Bonus: experience with internal tooling or developer-productivity teams, continuous integration/delivery systems, benchmarking, or AWS.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth: (Describe opportunities offered here)
- 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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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:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience as an engineering people manager, mentoring and growing engineers
- Track record of roadmap planning and delivering projects cross-functionally
- Strong system design skills for reliable, high-scale systems
- Experience driving performance engineering practices and release experience
- Ability to partner with product, infrastructure, and CI teams and internal stakeholders
- Experience with internal tooling or developer-productivity teams, CI/CD systems, benchmarking, or AWS
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Datadog Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, and vision with a dedicated mental‑health program offering free appointments for employees and dependents, and many locations include fitness reimbursements. Gender‑affirming care support is provided in eligible locations.
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Parental & Family Support — Fully paid, gender‑neutral parental leave is complemented by family‑forming benefits such as adoption, fertility, preservation, and surrogacy support, plus childcare assistance where available. Pet‑related benefits, including adoption assistance and insurance, are offered in some regions.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is emphasized through a discounted employee stock purchase plan and RSUs for eligible roles. These programs can enhance total compensation alongside core salary.
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What We Do
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.
Why Work With Us
At Datadog, we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems, innovate pragmatically, and grow together. We promote from within, provide mentorship and opportunities for career development, and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them and their team.
