Manager II, Engineering - Logs

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New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
234K-300K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
We are building the monitoring and security platform for developers, IT ops teams and business users in the cloud age.
The Role
Lead and scale a ~30-person engineering organization owning Datadog Logs: define technical roadmap with Product and Design, partner with platform teams for reliability and performance, grow managers and engineering talent, manage organizational complexity, and drive business and product outcomes.
Summary Generated by Built In

As an Engineering Manager II at Datadog, you will own a significant portion of the Logs business — one of Datadog's largest and most strategic products, with major growth opportunities still ahead. Sitting at the table where strategy is defined, you will drive execution across a ~30-person engineering org at an exciting moment of product evolution where AI requires us to fundamentally rethink how we handle observability data to remain market leaders. This is a high-scope role for someone energized by hard problems, eager to grow at the intersection of business strategy and engineering excellence, and driven to build a product that radically transforms how engineering teams around the world operate and resolve incidents.
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: 

  • Own the success of the Logs business for your scope — co-define the Logs technical roadmap and product vision with Product, Design, and peer leadership. You will blend an understanding of customers, markets, and revenue drivers with deep engineering rigor to deliver our core vision 
  • Act as a key collaborator across Datadog, building strong partnerships with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure a highly reliable, scalable and performant product Invest in the next generation of engineering leaders — growing your managers, expanding their impact, and building a high-performing engineering organization where people continuously develop and thrive.
  • Foster a culture of ambition and resilience — where people lean into hard problems, iterate rapidly, and hold themselves to a high collective standard
  • Build an inclusive environment focused on fostering top-tier talent, ensuring that diverse perspectives are leveraged to build the best possible solution
  • Manage the complexity of a large organization — anticipating risks, resolving friction, and keeping teams focused on what matters to our customers 

Who You Are: 

  • Results-driven and decisive — you work hard to cut through ambiguity and consistently create the conditions for the people around you to do their best work
  • A business owner at heart — you think in markets, customers, and revenue, and you bring Product, Design, and Engineering together around a shared vision
  • Energized by hard problems and driven to keep growing — you seek out challenges, learn from them, and bring others along with your curiosity and forward-thinking approach
  • Passionate about developing people — you've grown leaders before, and you're known for creating opportunities for others to step up and expand their impact
  • Technically curious and continuously learning — you have the engineering foundation to earn trust, and the humility to keep deepening your understanding

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: 

  • 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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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$234,000$300,000 USD

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 engineering management experience building and scaling large engineering teams
  • Experience defining technical roadmaps and product vision in partnership with Product and Design
  • Track record growing engineering managers and developing high-performing teams
  • Strong technical foundation with experience delivering reliable, scalable, high-performance systems
  • Business-oriented mindset with experience aligning engineering work to customers, markets, and revenue
  • Experience with observability, logging, or related infrastructure products

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
6,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

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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