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Datadog's Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) group is one of the company's fastest-growing product areas, spanning Real User Monitoring (RUM), Product Analytics, Synthetic Monitoring, Feature Flags, and Datadog Studio, our newest AI-native observability surface. As Director, you will own engineering for one or more of these product areas, with scope shaped by your background and interests, and you will manage 50-60 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers. You'll partner with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap, not just execute against it, and you'll help drive AI adoption across engineering tooling, workflows, and product features. This role is based in Paris, one of Datadog's most established engineering hubs, with a clear growth path to Senior Director for the right candidate. 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 engineering for one or more DEM product areas with scope calibrated to your background and strengths Manage 50-60 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices Navigate cross-team dependencies across DEM, APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science Build and retain engineering talent in Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation Who You Are: You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors — this is a non-negotiable requirement for the role You integrate

Datadog’s Cloud Observability group is one of the core data retrieval and processing groups powering our foundational product, Infrastructure Monitoring. The group’s scope includes integration with all major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), as well as both regional and GPU-specific cloud providers. As Director, you will own engineering for all clouds, generating more than 10 million metric points per second, managing ~40 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers. You’ll partner with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap, not just execute against it, managing the growth of one of Datadog’s foundational 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: Own engineering for all of Cloud Observability Manage ~40 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices Navigate cross-team dependencies across the Agent, Telemetry Onboarding, Integrations, Action Platform, and Infrastructure Monitoring. Build and retain engineering talent in NYC, Boston, and Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation Who You Are: You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors You have deep experience with one or more cloud providers, ideally with experience operating large-scale systems in the cloud. You have a solid understanding of cloud economics, as well as how to balance performance and cos

Datadog is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and collaborative Area Vice President, Enterprise Security Sales to lead our Enterprise Security Sales organization and scale Datadog’s security business through a tightly integrated co-sell motion with Enterprise Account Executives. This senior leader will own the Enterprise Security strategy, ensuring security resources are deployed effectively to influence pipeline creation, deal progression, and multi-product adoption across Datadog’s largest and most strategic enterprise accounts. This senior leader will be responsible for driving market expansion and establishing Datadog as a trusted strategic partner to CISOs and security leadership teams. The role sits at the intersection of GTM design, sales execution, cross-functional orchestration, and customer value creation—ideal for a leader passionate about scaling high-growth security businesses. 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: Recruit, build, manage, and develop a world-class team of Enterprise Security Directors and Enterprise Security Sales Specialists. Own Enterprise Security revenue contribution and influence targets, ensuring consistent attainment through effective co-selling with Enterprise AEs. Inform and evolve Datadog’s Enterprise Security overlay strategy, including coverage models, specialist-to-AE ratios, rules of engagement, and prioritization frameworks. Define and own the Enterprise Security pipeline generation strategy within a co-sell / overlay model, establishing clear rules of engagement for when and how Security Specia

Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to scale rapidly and efficiently. The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team analyzes company financial data (revenue, customers, headcount, expenses, etc.) in order to support the business’ growth and success. As an analyst supporting the team, you will play a key role in delivering insights through the management of essential data infrastructure, including our financial planning tool, Pigment. Your role will be highly cross-functional, leveraging systems and data to unlock analytical capabilities for both FP&A and business leaders. Your role is critical in synthesizing information from across the organization to foster operational alignment and support informed strategic decisions. 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: Own the team’s forecasting and reporting software, Pigment, supporting data-driven insights through the development of dashboards and KPIs, both for standard FP&A reports and ad hoc projects Work cross-functionally with FP&A leaders to improve existing datasets and models Ensure data and system best practices in processes across the organization, including during planning and reporting cycles Represent FP&A in the data & analytics community, collaborating with analytics partners across the organization to democratize data and share insights Work on strategic projects and initiatives for senior management, assessing various business opportunities and proposing solutions Support Datadog’s data-based decision making and continued efficient growth Who You Are: 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A, Data Analy

You will lead a small, hands-on engineering team building the secure, scalable Core Analytics Data Access Platform that accelerates Datadog’s Applied AI and analytics capabilities. The team owns the Data Access Platform — a unified interface that lets AI and analytics teams discover and self-serve production-ready datasets while abstracting underlying systems and embedding required legal and compliance guardrails. In this role you’ll own technical direction, contribute to design and code, and partner closely with Applied AI, Product Analytics, and internal platform teams to provide reliable datasets and APIs for model training and analysis. This role balances day-to-day engineering leadership with long-term platform planning. 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 a Hands-On Engineering Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a small team of 2–4 data engineers (mix of senior and junior) across Paris and NYC, fostering technical excellence and career development. Own Technical Direction and Delivery: Define architecture, engineering priorities, and the team roadmap for the Data Access Platform, driving implementation of scalable, secure data pipelines and platform services. Contribute to Design and Code: Spend substantial time coding, reviewing, and shipping critical platform components to ensure performance, reliability, and operational excellence. Partner with Internal Stakeholders: Work closely with Applied AI, Internal Product Analytics, product managers, and platform teams to define data contracts, APIs, SLAs, observability, and curated analytical datasets. Ensure Data Security, Governance, and Reliability: Implement access controls, lineage, monitoring, and compliance guardrails to support safe model training and repeatable analytics workflows.

The Team Datadog is an enterprise SaaS company featured in Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte's Fast 500 Technology list, and Forrester's Intelligence Application and Service Monitoring Wave as a leader. Our team works with a best-of-breed product that solves real problems for our customers and partners. We are Datadog's in-house product experts and strategic architects of the partner ecosystem. The Partner Technical Solutions team drives Datadog's worldwide growth by shaping how our partners go to market, build services, and create lasting technical differentiation for their customers. We work at the intersection of product strategy, technical depth, and business outcomes - defining the frameworks, programs, and practices that determine how the partner ecosystem scales. Partner Technical Solutions is a growing global team that operates with high autonomy, collaborates constantly across functions, and sets the standard for what technical partnership looks like at Datadog. The Opportunity This role is built for someone who has already proven they can operate at the intersection of deep technical authority and executive influence - as comfortable presenting observability architecture to a federal agency CISO as they are rolling up their sleeves to get hands-on with a partner's most complex deployment challenges. Aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment, the Principal PSA will report to the Head of North America Partner Solutions Architecture. They are accountable for the technical success of our most strategically important federal and public sector partners - a trusted advisor, a force multiplier, and the definitive Datadog expert in every room they enter. Specifically, you will Own the senior technical relationship with a portfolio of high-value federal and public sector partners, serving as a strategic advisor to partner CTO, CISO, and VP-level stakeholders; Lead joint technical strategy sessions and executive business reviews, ensuring alignm

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - managing performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Partner with Support team senior leadership to oversee team projects and initiatives to improve productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team, including managing other managers Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.) 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

Datadog is seeking an Analyst Relations Principal to help shape and scale our global Analyst Relations (AR) program. In this role, you will lead strategic engagement with industry analysts across observability, AI, and adjacent cloud technologies, ensuring they have a clear understanding of Datadog’s platform, innovation, and long-term vision. You will partner closely with Product Management and Product Marketing to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling narratives, while bringing analyst insights back into the business to inform strategy and positioning. This is a highly cross-functional role that blends strategic thinking with operational excellence and offers strong visibility across senior leadership. 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: Develop and drive the global analyst relations strategy across Datadog’s observability and AI portfolio Build and maintain trusted relationships with key analysts across firms such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC Partner with Product Management and Product Marketing to craft clear, differentiated narratives aligned to market trends Lead strategy, preparation and execution of analyst evaluations and research cycles, ensuring high-quality submissions Prepare senior leaders for analyst briefings with structured messaging and executive-ready materials Synthesize analyst insights into actionable recommendations for product strategy and go-to-market alignment Who You Are: 8+ y

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - managing performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Partner with Support team senior leadership to oversee team projects and initiatives to improve productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team, including managing other managers Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.) Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's ok

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

Backend Engineer (Senior Level) - SDE IV We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of backend services that deploy and serve machine learning models in production. You'll work closely with ML Engineers, Platform, and Product teams to build scalable, reliable systems and drive technical direction across multiple teams. What You’ll Do Design and drive the long-term architecture of backend services for biometrics and ML model serving. Collaborate with core platform and backend teams on organization-wide architectural initiatives. Partner with business and engineering teams to design and deliver cross-cutting platform capabilities. Lead architectural reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices. Build and maintain backend services for deploying and serving ML models Monitor service reliability, performance, and scalability in production Deploy and operate services on AWS using ECS + Fargate, SageMaker, or EC2 + Kubernetes Support real-time and batch inference workflows Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation What We’re Looking For Strong expertise in backend development using Java and working knowledge of Python. Experience mentoring engineers and driving architectural decisions. Working knowledge of Python, especially for ML-related workflows Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., DynamoDB, ECS, EC2, Redis, S3, SageMaker) Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, and experience with CI/CD and production monitoring Experience with observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.) Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, etc.) Understanding of how ML models are deployed and served in production Experience with Kubernetes Nice to Have Experience with MLOps or ML platform engineering. Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven systems. Jumio Values: IDEAL: Integrity, Diversity, Empowerment, Accountability, Leading Innovation Equal Opportunities :

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role… We are hiring a Director of Sales Operations to own the operating rhythm of our pre-sales engine globally: Sales, Sales Development, and Sales Engineering. This is a player/coach role leading a small team of experienced senior operators while staying hands-on, and our first Sales Operations leadership seat in North America. This role reports to the VP of Revenue Operations. What you’ll be doing… Forecasting and pipeline inspection. Own forecast methodology, accuracy, and variance analysis end to end for Sales and Sales Development; run the weekly commit and pipeline inspection cadence; build the leading indicators (stage conversion, velocity, slippage, aged pipeline) that make the forecast defensible before quarter end, not explained after it. Sales process and policy. Own the pre-sales process architecture: opportunity stages, exit criteria, qualification standards, pipeline hygiene rules, rules of engagement, and the SDR-to-AE handoff, including how conflicts get resolved. Sales Engineering coverage. Own the SE deployment model (SE-to-AE coverage ratios, prioritization of scarce SE time), standardize the technical proof-of-concept and demo process, and build the reporting that shows technical w

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Location: Europe remote or London hybrid The role: We're looking for a Staff (L6) Product Designer to lead design for Synthesia's AI-native product surfaces: the experiences where employees learn through conversation, companies localise content at scale, and AI becomes a direct participant in how work gets done - not just a tool behind the scenes. This area is central to redefining what a video platform can be: moving upstream from content creation into workforce development, and making complex AI capabilities feel natural, trustworthy, and effective for everyday users. You'll operate as a senior IC: setting direction, influencing roadmap decisions (not just contributing), shaping bets with Product and Engineering leaders, and raising the craft bar. In practice, this role is about solving AI-native design problems, for example: Designing real-time, conversational avatar experiences that feel engaging and natural - not robotic or gimmicky - for employees learning and practising skills at work. Creating interaction patterns for AI-driven workflows that give users the right amount of control, transparency, and trust without overwhelming them with complexity. Improving output quality through better structure, guidan

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Location: Europe remote or London hybrid The role: Synthesia is used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. The largest deployments now run thousands of creators across dozens of markets, languages, and compliance regimes. What decides whether those accounts expand or stall is not another avatar - it's whether admins, legal teams, and programme owners can actually stay in control. We're looking for a Staff (L6) Product Designer to own that layer end-to-end: workspace setup and governance, the content lifecycle, and the analytics and integrations that close the loop. This is the work that turns a proof of concept into a seven-figure renewal, and right now it is wide open. You'll operate as a senior IC: setting direction, influencing roadmap decisions (not just contributing), shaping bets with Product and Engineering leaders, and raising the bar on how we think about enterprise design problems. What you'll be doing: Own the Enterprise surface end-to-end, from problem framing to shipped outcomes and iteration - often dealing with ambiguity. You'll reach out to the right stakeholders, get the right eyes in the room, and make decisions independently. Design complex governance and compliance systems that give admins, legal t

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. The role... We are looking for a commercially sharp, consultative Solutions Consultant to drive technical validation and value realization for Synthesia across both prospects and customers. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Customer Success, and Product, and is responsible for ensuring that Synthesia is not only understood - but proven, adopted, and expanded based on clear business outcomes . You will own the technical win in deals, shape high-impact use cases, and ensure customers achieve first successful workflows that create the foundation for long-term adoption and growth. What You'll Do Lead discovery and qualification Run structured discovery with senior stakeholders to uncover business priorities, workflows, constraints, and success metrics Challenge vague requests and reframe them into clear, high-impact use cases Qualify rigorously: assess fit, urgency, stakeholder commitment, and path to value before committing support Surface adoption, technical, and organizational risks early, before they derail the deal or weaken rollout Own solution design and technical validation Translate business needs into clear solution approaches, validation plans, and customer-facing recommendations Design and run