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We are looking for a talented engineer to lead evaluation of startup acquisition opportunities in the AI, cloud and security space. You will drive product evaluations, prepare and manage technical architecture discussions with target groups in Product and Engineering and provide roadmap suggestions for M&A and investments for Datadog. You will be a key partner to Datadog’s C-level leadership and highly visible at the most senior levels of Datadog. The role is reporting into the Senior Director of Product Strategy and falls within the Product organization. We are looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about the latest tech being developed by startups in the cloud, AI and security space. The ideal candidate enjoys researching and evaluating new technologies, works effectively with cross-functional teams, and communicates opinions concisely to our leadership team. Broad understanding of relevant Cloud Technologies and deep understanding of the full coverage of Datadogs current offerings is necessary. The Corporate Development team is small and values authentic, strong-willed individuals who think creatively and proactively. This role leads technical due diligence from a product and architecture perspective across our acquisition pipeline. You'll scope and stand up proof-of-concept and sandbox environments to stress-test candidate products, then give an honest, unvarnished view of their quality and depth - the kind of assessment that holds up regardless of deal momentum. You'll assess technical architecture, flag the risks and open questions that matter most early, and turn that into a clear post-acquisition integration path. Working closely with engineering, you'll keep the evaluation focused on what's actually decision-relevant, then translate the findings into strategic recommendations for leadership and help carry the integration through by partnering with the right people on the other side. What You’l

Datadog’s Cloud Networks team designs, builds, and maintains the production network infrastructure that powers everything built on top of our platform across AWS, GCP, Azure, and beyond. In this role, you’ll set technical direction for how we scale our multi-region, multi-cloud network footprint while keeping reliability and performance high. You’ll partner closely with internal teams and Cloud Service Providers to troubleshoot complex connectivity issues, integrate new networking capabilities, and improve the foundations our engineers and customers rely on. This is a high-impact opportunity to drive meaningful improvements in scale, resiliency, and cost efficiency. 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: Design, build, and operate cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds in a multi-region environment. Own connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers—ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable network paths. Set clear technical direction for expanding data centers and evolving the network while maintaining stability and performance. Improve cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support Datadog’s growing platform needs. Lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures – from pcap and path analysis through to escalations with cloud providers that may originate from customer support Identify and deliver network-related efficiency and cost-saving opportunities that positively impact business health. Who You Are: You have deep networking expertise. You understand BGP, route policies, path selection, prefix advertisement, and what breaks in large-scale networking. You have substantial experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks—inclu

As a Staff Product Manager on Datadog's Observability Data Platform (ODP) , you will lead product management for a portfolio of foundational platform bets — work that changes the cost structure and capability of the platform itself, not the cost of any single feature. Among ODP’s portfolio of engineering work are efforts to bring the platform's unit cost down meaningfully each quarter, plus a slate of architectural bets aimed at order-of-magnitude cost reduction over the longer horizon. The work you'll lead reshapes how Datadog ingests, routes, and exposes telemetry value to customers — and is foundational to how every product team in Datadog's ecosystem will think about telemetry economics going forward. This role reports to the Group Product Manager of ODP. What You'll Do: Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and desired outcomes, partnering with engineering to determine slices of work that drive value in phases for users and the business. Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture of the platform — how value-aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer-facing cost stories fit together over multiple quarters. Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs — credibly produce the analysis that engineering leadership and pricing partners need to make resourcing and prioritization calls. Anticipate and communicate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability and how they shape platform investment. Develop deep understanding of cost-to-serve by partnering with engineering on the unit economics of the data platform and bring that cost-profile understanding into collaborative discussions with product verticals about customer-facing trade-offs. Surface the customer-positive angles in cost work that engineering-led optimization tickets don't currently make visible. Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audien

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Logs organization at Datadog and help redefine how our customers ingest, query, and derive insights from logs data. In this role, you’ll work closely with Product Managers and customers to drive complex initiatives across ingestion pipelines, search infrastructure, and intelligent log management capabilities - all while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and distributed systems. You’ll have the opportunity to lead efforts that shape the future of log management. 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: Partner with Product Managers to define ambiguous product requirements and determine the most impactful solutions for customers Lead technical strategy and execution and design systems surrounding log query performance and ingestion at scale. Explore and prototype new capabilities and collaborate with peers on initiatives spanning AI-powered log management, security and business operations, advanced query capabilities, and external data sources query capabilities. Mentor engineers across levels and contribute to growing a high-performing, collaborative team culture Who You Are: You have deep experience architecting and scaling backend systems, with a strong focus on data-intensive or distributed infrastructure You excel in ambiguous environments, demonstrating a mix of drive, curiosity and pragmatic decision-making You’ve partnered effectively with Product Managers and customers to define product direction and ship impactful features You have expertise in debugging complex systems and optimizing performance across real-time data pipelines You have experience in using AI agents tools in your day-to-day engineering practices You lead by example and enjoy helping others grow through m

As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team, you'll help shape how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, improve operational visibility, and enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence. This role combines deep distributed systems expertise with technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing platform strategy while remaining hands-on in the code. You'll have the opportunity to solve company-wide challenges spanning cost intelligence, operational tooling, platform health, and developer experience. 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 strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform. Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations. Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency. Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products. Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions. Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Who You Are: You have experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise i

As a TPM for SRE, you will partner with SRE leaders and engineers to scale the platform that underpins all of MongoDB’s cloud products. You will drive program execution, strengthen production reliability practices, and coordinate cross-functional efforts across US and EMEA teams. Success in this role means smoother launches, clearer roadmaps, stronger reliability metrics and an SRE organization that's better-equipped to deliver predictability at scale. This role can be based out of our Dublin or Cork office or remotely in Ireland. What You'll Do Drive Program Planning & Execution – Define program scope, milestones, and success criteria with SRE engineers and leaders. Manage dependencies across platform teams, keep work clearly tracked in Jira, and deliver on time Strengthen Production Reliability – Lead change management and launch readiness programs. Partner with SREs and product teams to define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs, and use incident data, metrics, and capacity signals to drive prioritization and continuous improvement Lead Cross-Functional Coordination – Align SRE with Security, Compliance, Cloud platform, and other engineering teams. Coordinate cross-team incident response, ensure clear follow-through, and build trust as the go-to driver of complex, multi-team efforts Build Scalable Systems & Processes – Design lightweight frameworks and communication patterns that help SRE deliver reliably at scale. Work yourself out of the "hero" role by leaving teams better-equipped to execute independently Requirements 8+ years in technical program management, engineering management, or a comparable technical role partnering with software engineering teams Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-team platform initiatives through ambiguity and change Strong knowledge of production change management, software development lifecycle, and reliability metrics (SLOs, SLIs) Skilled at shaping roadmaps and managing dependencies Able to query and interpret

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff IT Product Manager for Internal AI to drive the strategy, delivery, and adoption of AI-powered solutions across our enterprise IT landscape. This role will be pivotal in shaping how AI transforms our internal operations, from service delivery and knowledge management to automation and decision support. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of managing enterprise-scale AI/ML products, collaborating across IT and business functions, and delivering measurable impact. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA for our hybrid working model. Key Responsibilities AI Product Strategy & Roadmap Define and execute the internal AI product strategy aligned with enterprise IT and business goals Own multiple product lines in the internal AI product space Prioritize high-value use cases across IT functions (helpdesk, infrastructure, security, applications, enterprise data) Balance quick wins (AI copilots) with longer-term bold initiatives (AI-driven automation and decision-making) Experience in implementing AI solutions for enterprises our size and scale. This should include enabling agentic platforms for organizations and bringing to the table the best practices, pitfalls and learnings from such experiences Product Management Execution Embrace the product mindset and own the lifecycle of AI products—from ideation, critical user journey definition, requirements gathering, vendor evaluation, prototyping, and implementation to scaling in production Define and manage product backlogs, roadmaps, and success metrics Drive adoption and ensure AI solutions are delivering measurable outcomes (efficiency, cost savings, user experience) Stakeholder Engagement Partner with IT leaders (Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Service Desk) to identify pain points and AI opportunities Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure alignment and secure sponsorship for AI initiatives Communica

The Data Engineering team is responsible for building ETL pipelines that populate the Internal Data Platform, which drives analytics that help the company run more efficiently. Our team builds highly performant and scalable processes that extract massive datasets and makes those datasets available for querying in an optimal way. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurgaon for our hybrid working model. What you’ll do Guide the Data Engineering team on building highly performance ETL pipelines using Spark and other Big Data technologies Help design the architecture of our Internal Data Platform to support the implementation of a robust medallion architecture Provide thought leadership on ways to achieve infrastructure cost savings on Cloud hyperscalers Design and build AI agents that can help automate many of the common development and support tasks that the team performs Work with Security and Compliance teams to ensure that datasets have appropriate permissions and regulations in place Work with our Data Platform, and Governance sibling teams to make data scalable, consumable, and discoverable We’re looking for someone with 10+ years experience working on enterprise data lakes/warehouses 5+ years of Spark and Python experience 5+ years of direct hands-on experience working with AWS or GCP Thorough AI knowledge, particularly with codegen tools and agentic frameworks Hive, Iceberg, Glue, or other technologies that expose big data as tables Familiarity with different big data file types such as Parquet, Avro, and JSON Exposure to real-time or streaming data technologies is a plus Success Measures In 3 months, you'll have a thorough understanding of the architecture of MongoDB’s internal Data and AI ecosystem In 6 months, you'll have owned the delivery of a large project from start (scoping, design) to finish (delivery) In 12 months, you'll have designed new features, led development work, and become a go-to expert on parts of the system About MongoDB

We’re hiring a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager to lead positioning, messaging, and product adoption across our AI and agentic context solutions. This is a high-impact role for a technical marketer who thinks and acts like a builder. Most AI systems don't fail because the model is bad—they fail because they lack a crucial, contextual foundation. MongoDB owns a piece of nearly every step in that chain. This role requires deep technical expertise across the context stack—including VoyageAI embedding and reranking models, MCP Server, and the coding agent ecosystem (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex, etc.)—combined with product marketing instincts to deeply understand the market and translate technical depth into crisp, differentiated messaging for distinct user and buyer personas. The ideal candidate has experience building and shipping AI-enabled products and using developer tools in their day-to-day workflows. Individuals with prior experience in technical sales, developer relations, or software development are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate is a voracious consumer of AI research and pays close attention to shifting patterns in how software and AI applications are built and consumed. This individual is confident in communicating with technical practitioners and non-technical decision makers in one-to-few and one-to-many engagements for internal and external audiences. You will leverage your technical depth to craft clear, compelling, and highly differentiated messaging by working backward from customer requirements. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Drive Strategy & Execution: Act as the strategic owner for MongoDB’s context engineering portfolio—MCP Server, Agent Skills, VoyageAI, and more— aligning roadmap and go-to-market with MongoDB’s long-term business goals, in collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, Developer Relations, Partn

As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will partner with key Engineering, Product, Product Design, Marketing, and Analytics stakeholders to deliver Observability features and platform capabilities for MongoDB. As a seasoned program leader, you will be responsible for one of our most mission-critical programs this fiscal year, and own executive level communication related to the program. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. The right candidate for this role will be: Experienced with 10+ years of working in an engineering organization leading complex cross-functional technical programs Experienced with 5 years of Software development background, with Cloud storage and compute products Experience with Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Infrastructure Able to leverage their knowledge and experience to influence technical discussions, summarizing outcomes and next steps Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders Hyper-organized and capable of coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations A role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency Able to leverage their experience in program delivery to influence improvements to our tools, operations, and architecture Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. Jira, Rally, MS Project) Familiar with MongoDB or a comparable technology Interested in business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack. Position Expectations: Leverage technical acumen and analytical skills to drive engineering programs forward and maximize business value delivery Recognize patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly Design, maintain, and improve the processes and tools that power program delivery Build strategic partnerships with Product and Engineering stakeholders Expand knowledge into new domains as called upon Act as a me

About Voyage AI Team at MongoDB Voyage AI team in MongoDB is building a best-in-class, general-purpose, domain-specific, and fine-tuned embedding models and rerankers to enable accurate, efficient unstructured data search and retrieval for RAG, recommendation, semantic search, and more. It is backed by a strong team of AI researchers from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, and CMU, who have conducted over five years of cutting-edge research on training embedding models. Voyage AI was acquired by MongoDB recently, and is now integrating the SOTA embedding models with MongoDB's data platform to create powerful end-to-end solutions. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Palo Alto for our hybrid working model. Position Overview We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to join our team and contribute to the development of next-generation AI models. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning research and practical deployment of large neural networks. This role can be based out of our Palo Alto office, or remotely in the United States. Responsibilities Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, from frontier LLMs to embedding models and rerankers Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigm Collaborate closely with other research scientists and research engineers as well as peers across the organization Qualifications PhD degree in Computer Science or related field A track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications in top venues Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing Experience building complex neural networks for language and visual understanding Capable of conducting rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical results Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication ski

This new team will architect the platform foundation and infrastructure that enables a "build once, run anywhere" model, ensuring our AI-powered modernisation suite operates seamlessly regardless of a client's security or network constraints. We are looking for engineers to join this high-visibility initiative, where you will solve unique distributed systems puzzles and help shape the future of how global enterprises leverage GenAI. We are looking for an experienced software engineer who thrives on solving infrastructure constraints and building enterprise facing platforms. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can architect complex distributed systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to deliver a platform that minimizes deployment friction and meets customers’ compliance requirements. This role can be based out of our Gurgaon office or Remotely in India. The ideal candidate for this role will have 8+ years of software development and operations experience, with a focus on building platforms and distributable software infrastructure 2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of engineers to achieve high-impact results Deep experience designing distributable applications that run in air-gapped or highly restricted network environments Strong proficiency in containerization and orchestration, with the ability to design systems where the host executes containerized applications under strict security monitoring Experience building Service Host architectures that provide shared routing, proxy layers, and API gateways for multiple underlying services Experience managing persistent storage solutions (blob/file storage) within distributed systems Understanding of security-first design, specifically regarding the execution of untrusted code, fine-grain access control, and rigorous input validation Experience designing auto-update mechanisms for software that cannot directly access the public internet Curiosity,

We are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing Gurugram Products & Technology team to provide technical direction, shape architecture, and build key operational foundations of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on this new team, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership for the operational foundations that enable deployment at scale of AI applications. You will own the reliability architecture of the platform as it expands across regions and cloud providers, and set the technical direction for how the platform is operated, including capacity planning, multi-cloud expansion, incident response, and SLO discipline. The platform's SRE team owns the operational foundations: the Kubernetes fleet, networking, observability and alerting, and tenant isolation. MongoDB engineering teams pride themselves on building high-quality software and living MongoDB cultural values every day – we value intellectual curiosity and honesty, and building together in an environment that prioritizes collaboration over competition. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Bengaluru for our hybrid working model. Position Expectations Own the reliability architecture of the platform across regions and cloud providers Collaborate with the teams building the platform, providing internal support and guidance on operability, capacity, and best practices Set operational standards for the team: on-call quality, incident response, SLO discipline Mentor and technically develop the SRE team Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve issues involving platform infrastructure Qualifications 10+ years of experience working on software and operating distributed systems, with deep Kubernetes expertise, including designing or evolving multi-cluster platforms Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar programming language Understand workload isolati

MongoDB’s Security Product Management team is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own security, compliance, and public sector product strategy within Atlas for Government (A4G). In this role, you will be a key member of the security product management team, helping make data security a market differentiator that enables MongoDB to win in enterprise and regulated industries. You will lead product strategy and execution for capabilities and programs that support federal compliance requirements and broader regulated-industry needs. You will work across Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Security, and Go-to-Market teams to translate complex regulatory and customer requirements into clear product investments, roadmaps, and outcomes. This role is suited for a candidate who can orchestrate multiple interlinked product areas, own cross-team product and architectural trade-offs, and align senior stakeholders around multi-year bets. You will be expected to identify opportunities and dependencies that cut across team boundaries, bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces, and establish reusable ways of working that help MongoDB deliver secure, compliant platform capabilities for public sector and other regulated markets. You will partner closely with senior engineering and business leaders to evaluate trade-offs, sequence investments, and bring clarity to decisions that balance customer impact, execution risk, and long-term business value. This role can be based out of of our offices or remotely in the United States. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. Our FedRAMP program requires that anyone who is accessing customer data or metadata inside the Authorization Boundary be a US Person on US Soil. Responsibilities Security and Compliance Product Strategy Own the public sector compliance roadm

As a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, you will partner with key Engineering, Product, Product Design, Marketing, and Analytics stakeholders to conduct data-driven experiments and deliver features for MongoDB. As a seasoned program leader, you will be responsible for one of our most mission-critical programs this fiscal year, and own executive level communication related to the program. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model, or remote within Ireland. The right candidate for this role will be: Experienced with 15+ years of working in an engineering organization leading complex cross-functional technical programs Experienced with 10 years of Software development background, with Cloud storage and compute products Experience with Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Infrastructure Able to leverage their knowledge and experience to influence technical discussions, summarizing outcomes and next steps Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders Hyper-organized and capable of coordinating across multiple independent work streams and organizations A role model for effective execution practices, driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency Able to leverage their experience in program delivery to influence improvements to our tools, operations, and architecture Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. Jira, Rally, MS Project) Familiar with MongoDB or a comparable technology Interested in business automation work such as scripting in Python, Google Apps Script and Slack Position Expectations: Leverage technical acumen and analytical skills to drive engineering programs forward and maximize business value delivery Recognize patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly Design, maintain, and improve the processes and tools that power program delivery Build strategic partnerships with Product and Engineering stakeholders Expand knowledge into new