Datadog

Manager I, Engineering - Language Platform

Madrid, Spain; Paris, France · Work style not stated

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EmployerDatadog
LocationMadrid, Spain; Paris, France
Work styleWork style not stated
Employer posted5 days ago

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is one of Datadog’s 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 Datadog’s 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. They’re also open-source.

Leading the evolution of our SDKs is a technically demanding and highly collaborative effort. You’ll 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. You’ll rethink our SDKs’ architecture, APIs, data models, and protocol to meet Datadog’s current needs and scale, all while building in the open. And you’ll grow your team’s capacity by fostering a culture focused on customer needs, continuous learning, and innovation.

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We’re 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 you’ll 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. 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.

#LI-Hybrid

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.

Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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