Manager I, Engineering - Change Experience Platform

• You have experience managing engineers working on internal platforms, developer tooling, infrastructure tooling, product platforms, or similar internally focused systems.
• You have strong technical judgment across distributed systems, internal tools, APIs, data models, and user-facing engineering workflows.
• You understand that internal platforms succeed through adoption, trust, reliability, and clear user experience, not just technical correctness.
• You have experience working directly with engineering customers, platform teams, or infrastructure teams to understand their workflows and improve how they get work done.
• You have significant experience in one or more backend languages, such as Go, Python, Java, or similar; and with different types of data stores, such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis or ElasticSearch.
• You have enough frontend or product-surface fluency to guide teams building internal UIs, design systems, workflow tools, or other user-facing engineering experiences.
• Bonus points: You’re familiar with AI development workflows and the tools that facilitate them.
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience .

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.

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.

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.

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