Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines (OP)

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Sensitive Data Scanner (SDS) Telemetry team. The SDS group’s mission is to be the world’s easiest-to-use tool to discover, classify, manage, and report sensitive data risks across cloud, on-premise, and code environments. This team builds and scales the detection capabilities that scan all telemetry data flowing into Datadog — logs, APM spans, and RUM events — operating in streaming, at processing time, and at very large scale. You’ll lead a small, close-knit team based in Paris, with the opportunity to shape how the team grows as SDS Telemetry’s scope expands. It’s a chance to combine hands-on technical leadership with direct customer and product impact in the security and observability space. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture — the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead and grow a team of engineers building real-time sensitive data detection across Datadog’s Logs, APM, and RUM telemetry pipelines Partner closely with the Logs, APM, and RUM teams, plus Datadog’s Trust & Safety team, to align on roadmap and integration priorities Shape product direction by working closely with Product, grounding decisions in customer needs and business impact Stay hands-on: contribute to design decisions and participate in the team’s on-call rotation Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers as the team grows beyond its initial size Help build a strong engineering culture as part of Datadog’s broader Sensitive Data Scanner group Who You Are: You have experience building and shipping revenue-generating products, with strong product acumen and a customer-first mindset You have hands-on experience with Go and/or Java, and a track record building distributed, streaming systems at scale You have experience managing engineers — or are

The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog. Our mission is to provide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI , LLMObs and all our AI research . As an engineering manager for the Training & Serving team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: distributed training of foundation models, serving at scale, designing the user experience. You’ll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. You’ll also partner with the Applied AI org and with Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up. 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: Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap. Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage, infrastructure and data pipelines to our needs Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding Who You Are: Previous experience (1+ years) leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader Excellent leader with strong

As Engineering Manager for Code Security, you'll lead a team of engineers building Infrastructure as Code and Secrets protection - one of the fastest-growing areas inside Datadog's security business, with a strong roadmap and real customer problems to solve. You'll partner closely with Product Management and User Experience to shape how the team delivers, stay hands-on with the technical work, and bring AI deeply into how your engineers build. The organization is still young, which means real room to shape its direction and grow into broader scope as it does. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Lead and grow a team of engineers building Datadog's Infrastructure as Code and Secrets security products Own the team's roadmap, staffing, and delivery, partnering closely with Product Management and User Experience Stay hands-on: contribute to code review, weigh in on design decisions, and participate in the on-call rotation Bring AI deeply into how the team builds, from adopting agentic coding tools to rethinking workflows around them Coach engineers at every level, giving direct feedback and helping them grow their scope and careers Keep the team's projects and programs organized as priorities shift across a fast-growing area Who You Are: You've managed software engineers for 2+ years, with a track record of shipping through your team You bring a strong technical background you can draw on in day-to-day roadmap and design conversations You're comfortable staying close to the work - reviewing code and unblocking technical decisions alongside your team You've integrated AI agents into how you and your team deliver code, not just experimented with them You keep projects and programs organized, even as priorities and scope shift &n

The Security Libraries team owns the customer-side integrations behind Datadog’s run-time security products — App & API Protection , Workload Protection , and Code Security — shipping and maintaining security capabilities across seven open-source language libraries ( .NET , Java , Go , Node.js , Python , Ruby , PHP ) and a set of HTTP proxy integrations (Envoy, NGINX, and HAProxy), running inside thousands of production clusters worldwide. Recent work spans exploit prevention (RASP), WAF detections, API Security, code security (IAST and SCA), and AI-assisted onboarding. As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead part of this polyglot team, setting the technical bar and team culture while driving the pace at which new detections and AI-assisted capabilities reach customers. This is a hands-on role: you’ll balance people leadership, product and roadmap ownership, and the operational health of code that runs in production at massive scale, with room to grow into more of Datadog’s security portfolio over time. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs 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 Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews, and the on-call rotation Set product direction with Product Management and balance priorities across App & API Protection, Workload Protection, and Code Security Stay technically close to the work — apply strong technical judgment, 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, and frontend partners Shape team identity and culture, and own accountability when problems oc

Husky is what we call the distributed, petabyte-scale columnar event store at the heart of our Event Platform, which powers dozens of Datadog’s most popular products – Logs, RUM, APM , Cloud Network Monitoring, Netflow, and many more. Husky was built from the ground up at Datadog to store and query massive volumes of event data at low cost, with data fully queryable within seconds of arrival. As an Engineering Manager on Husky, you will lead one of a few closely collaborating teams that work directly on Husky’s internals. We own the full lifecycle of events stored by our Event Platform – whether it’s managing the ingestion of over 100 million events per second exactly-once , optimizing the persistence layer with lightning-fast compaction , tweaking our columnar format, timely deletion across hundreds of thousands of customer tables, or building the metadata service that enables hundreds of thousands of queries per second – you will be responsible for the growth and success of a team constantly meeting new scalability requirements driven by Datadog’s growing customer base and suite of products. 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: Manage a team of software engineers ranging from new grads to senior engineers, focusing on career development, inclusivity, and high impact Be a technical leader of the team; while the role may not involve frequent hands on coding, you’ll be reviewing architecture decisions, RFCs, and pull requests and ensuring what the team ships is high quality Partner with product teams to evaluate use cases, ensure smooth implementation, and prioritize new platform capabilities. Share on-call responsibilities with the rest of the team and ensure a culture of operational exc

Datadog’s Product Analytics suite spans Product Analytics, Session Replay, Feature Flags, and Experimentation. Together they give product teams a complete, quantitative and qualitative picture of how users experience their applications, plus the tools to release, measure, and improve those experiences with confidence. Our team of Applied Scientists makes this space smarter and more autonomous, researching, prototyping, and industrializing AI/ML capabilities that make the suite proactive and agentic by default: AI-driven event understanding and instrumentation, conversational analytics, automated insight reporting, and UI/UX issue detection from session replays. The ambition is to let product teams act with autonomy, moving from question to insight to safely released change without depending on engineering or analysts. As the Engineering Manager for this team, you’ll lead a team of Applied Scientists through an early-stage, high-impact opportunity: defining the team’s technical vision, growing its footprint, and shaping how AI capabilities get built and delivered across the suite. This is greenfield work, both in the R&D itself and in the team you’ll grow around it. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Lead and grow a team of Applied Scientists researching, prototyping, and industrializing AI/ML capabilities across the suite Define the technical vision and roadmap for the suite’s agentic and proactive AI/ML capabilities: event understanding, conversational analytics, insight reporting, and session-replay issue detection Stay hands-on as a technical contributor and reviewer, helping the team move from research prototypes to production-grade capabilities Shape how AI capabilities get built and delivered across the suite, partnering closely wi