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Forward Deployed Engineering Manager - Datadog for Startups

Datadog·📍 New York, New York, United States

Employment

Full-Time

Work mode

On-site

Experience

SENIOR LEVEL

Salary

$200K – $250K/yr

Role overview

Job description

Datadog's Forward Deployed Engineering function is in an active growth phase, and the FDE Manager will play a central role in shaping what comes next. Working in close partnership with the Head of Datadog for Startups and Forward Deployed Engineers, and the existing FDE team, you will help define and expand the FDE framework, build out the structures and processes that allow the team to operate at scale, and extend the program's reach well beyond any single customer segment. This role sits at the rare intersection of sales, execution, program design, and hands-on engineering leadership. You are part field technical leader, part program architect, and part cross-functional connector. You will help determine what the FDE motion looks like at Datadog, contribute to its playbook, and push the boundaries of what the team can deliver. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the

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About this listing

  • Listed from Datadog's careers site via Greenhouse · last confirmed on the source 23 Oct 2026
  • Posted 24 Jun 2026

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Qualification

Who You Are: Have 8+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, software engineering, or related technical fields, including at least 3 years in a customer-facing technical role; We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements

Department · Corporate Development

Hiring company

Datadog

We tackle some of the hardest technical problems while delivering a product that "just works" for our customers. And we are backed by some of the best VCs in NYC and the world. Do you want to make a difference? Are you exceptional at your job, and intrinsically motivated by it? Do you eat hard problems for breakfast and find them beautifully simple solutions by lunchtime? Do you ever wish you were there in the early days of these startups everyone is talking about? If so, we want to hear from you.

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