Lead Senior Software Engineer I in United States

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Technical Program Manager II to join Datadog’s Technical Solutions organization. This organization is made up of 1,200+ customer-facing technical experts around the world — including Sales Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Support Engineers, and Solution Architects — who work with prospects and customers throughout their journey with Datadog to deliver outstanding experiences and drive growth through product adoption. As a Technical Program Manager II, you will lead and support a variety of technical programs that help these customer-facing teams work more effectively. Depending on the needs of the organization, this could include programs related to internal tooling, process improvement, knowledge and content systems, or other cross-functional initiatives. You’ll partner closely with team leads, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to bring structure and clarity to moderately complex, cross-team programs, and you’ll act as a multiplier for the teams you support by driving programs from planning through delivery. Candidates who have previously led projects for customer-facing technical teams are especially encouraged to apply. 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 Drive delivery of cross-team programs that support one or more Technical Solutions teams — coordinating stakeholders, dependencies, and timelines to keep work on track from kickoff through delivery. Partner with team leads, subject matter experts, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate program goals into clear, actionable plans, and document scope, timeline, and quality expectations along the way. Establish and maintain program management fundamentals — project trackers, status updates, risk logs — so stakeholders always

We are the Experimentation team at Datadog, a startup operating inside one of the fastest-growing companies in software. The team brings together engineers who joined through Datadog’s May 2025 acquisition of Eppo with engineers from across Datadog, and together we are building feature flagging and experimentation into the platform. Both products were recently launched this year, and we are just getting started: we are migrating customers from Eppo onto Datadog while shipping an ambitious roadmap across both flagging and experimentation. Our statistics engineers hold PhDs and are pushing the boundaries of what an experimentation platform can do. Our full-stack engineers move fast, lean on the latest AI tooling, and prototype and ship new features weekly. We talk to customers directly to shape requirements, and our roadmap is driven by our own product vision and sharpened by real customer and sales input. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Experimentation App. You will own one to two squads to start, partnering closely with our engineers, statisticians, product managers, and designers to turn a deep roadmap into a shipped product. To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. What You’ll Do: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of strong full-stack and frontend engineers. Help them grow to the next level and continuously provide them opportunities to develop. Own delivery for the Experimentation App from planning through production, balancing speed with quality in a fast-paced environment. Set technical direction in partnership with your team and our statistics engineers, engaging credibly on architecture and tradeoffs. Partner with Product, Design, and customers directly to shape requirements and turn customer and sales input into roadmap. Foster a culture of fast iteration and high engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and blamele

Applied AI is where Datadog's ambitious AI bets get built and shipped ( Bits Chat , updog ). We sit at the intersection of research and product: turning promising capabilities from Datadog AI Research lab and the research community into production systems that reach real customers. The team builds the foundations for agentic systems capable of operating at scale in complex production environments. Current bets span agents that run autonomously at scale, context and memory layers that make those agents more intelligent over time, and tools that help customers build and validate AI-native services in production. The mandate is to move fast from idea to customer impact, and when a product finds its footing, to set it up for growth. As an Engineering Manager I in Applied AI, you will lead a team of engineers and applied scientists working on one of these challenges. You will define technical direction, run short feedback loops, make deliberate decisions about what to pursue or stop, and work closely with product managers, research teams, and cross-functional partners to ship AI capabilities that matter. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture, the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings. 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 develop a team of engineers and applied scientists focused on building the foundations for agents operating at scale Work closely with product managers, research teams, and cross-functional partners to shape the team's bets from initial framing through to broader adoption, with a clear definition of success criteria at each stage Own end-to-end delivery of high-quality AI systems, from early research exploration to production-grade reliability, with high standards for operational excellence, system reliability, and technical quality Navigate the unique challenges of shipping AI-powered products: balancing quali

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world to defend the enterprise from code-to-cloud-to-runtime. Used by thousands of companies globally, Datadog security products uniquely leverage Datadog’s unified security and observability platform so Security, DevOps and SRE can collaborate rapidly and seamlessly to deliver better detection, prioritization and remediation. Our product and engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. In this competitive market, the Group Product Manager for Code Security will play a mission-critical role in providing product and strategy leadership to grow Datadog’s market share through differentiation, innovation and compelling customer value. This leader will lead a talented and growing team of product managers and work with world class engineers to build and grow multiple Code Security products that play an essential role for our customers’ code security programs, and growing Datadog into a security industry leader. 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: Run and grow multiple Code Security products to meet revenue and business targets with the goal of building a multi-hundred million dollar annual business. Lead and own product strategy and roadmap for accountable security products, fully aligned to revenue and business goals and with compelling differentiation and customer value. Ensure predictable roadmap execution across direct and partner teams to achieve product and business outcomes required to meet the revenue and business goals. Analyze and develop pricing and packaging strategies to maximize revenue through attaching deep understanding of market dynamics and other strategic leverage points. Drive GTM strategy with GTM partner teams

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in GenAI/ML to join Datadog’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team. APM is a product which provides deep visibility into applications, enabling users to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize services. With distributed tracing, profiling, out-of-the-box dashboards, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data, Datadog APM provides some of the deepest and most structured visibility into the health and performance of applications. This context sets us up for an opportunity to be the world leaders in agentic investigations and incident troubleshooting. You’ll act as a technical leader within the APM group, focused on agentic workflows. You’ll lead efforts to design, train, evaluate, and deploy GenAI/ML models at scale. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end. 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: Act as a technical leader within the APM organization, driving GenAI/machine learning projects from concept to production. Build and benchmark GenAI/ML models using state-of-the-art techniques. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build automated investigation and triaging tools. Influence product direction by bringing a strong product mindset to your work, always advocating for the end user. Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction. Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups. Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equiva

About the role: Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and competitive readiness. As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities. You will translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, launches, pricing value, customer sentiment, analyst narratives, and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product, GTM, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Advocacy, and leadership. In this highly technical, hands-on leadership role, you should understand how observability products are implemented, where workflows differ, what technical claims are credible, and how product gaps translate into customer impact. What You'll Do: Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence. Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions. Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance. Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs. Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement. Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs. Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions. Partner with Tec

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

The Team We are Datadog’s in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog’s worldwide growth by educating potential partners and ensuring that our integration ecosystem is high-performing, secure, and valuable. Partner Technology Solutions Engineers (TSEs) are the technical bridge between Datadog and our third-party developer community. We act as consultants, helping partners build world-class monitoring solutions on the Integration Developer Platform (IDP) . The Opportunity Datadog is looking for a Partner Technology Solutions Engineer to join our fast-paced team. You will be the primary technical contact for our partners, guiding them through the entire integration lifecycle—from initial architectural design to final publication on the Datadog Marketplace. This is a unique role that combines deep technical troubleshooting with high-level consulting and platform advocacy. You will work directly with external developers and see your contributions immediately reflected in the Datadog ecosystem. You Will Act as the technical lead for partners, advising on OAuth flows, log pipelines, OpenTelemetry, and agent-based vs. API-based configurations Perform architectural assessments and deep-dive code reviews for partner integrations in the integrations-extras and marketplace repositories, ensuring they meet our Quality Rubric Solve complex technical challenges for partners via Zendesk, Slack, and dedicated technical consultations Identify friction points in our Integration Developer Platform (IDP) and partner with our internal Product and Engineering teams to build a better developer experience Maintain public-facing developer documentation and internal tracking systems ( JIRA ) to ensure transparency and scale You Are A technical expert with 3+ years of experience in a technical role (Support Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Software Development) Proficient in at least one language (Python or Go preferred) An observability enthusiast who unders

Alerting is the beating heart of the Datadog platform. It is the critical bridge between raw data and decisive action, ensuring that when our customers’ systems falter, they are the first to know. Datadog is reimagining alerting; we’re evolving beyond simple triggers into providing a sophisticated, AI-powered posture that covers both known and unknown risks. As the Product Manager for Notification Orchestration, you will lead the evolution of how alerts reach the right people at the right time. You will define the strategy for our notification routing engine, ensuring that thousands of businesses can manage complex alerting logic without being overwhelmed by noise. You will empower customers to move beyond managing individual monitor outputs to a world where notifications are grouped, contextualized, and reliable at massive scale. 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 a comprehensive understanding of customers and the core problems behind their alerting and notification monitoring challenges. Collaborate across product teams to identify and deliver the most critical alerts and health indicators for every product area. Define, build, and launch the next generation of user experiences for managing automated alerts and configurations. Design intuitive solutions that represent alert status and system health across the entire application, providing users with at-a-glance visibility. Join an engineering team to scope, spec, and design alerting features capable of supporting the most complex, high-scale organizations Continuously evolve the product with the latest technologies, including AI tools and agents. Partner with marketing and customer success teams to help users understand and adopt new alerting frameworks and health-monitoring

At Datadog, our Office Operations team runs the day-to-day operations to keep our employees safe, happy, and productive. This dynamic team works closely with leadership and staff to ensure that Datadog scales smoothly and continues to be a fantastic place to work. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities for collaboration and growth. What You’ll Do: Act as the face of Datadog by welcoming visitors and supporting employees in the office. Act as the primary point of contact for all in-office needs, creating a friendly, helpful, and professional environment Own and lead daily floor walkthroughs, identifying and resolving operational issues proactively to maintain a high standard of cleanliness, safety, and functionality Cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with building management & vendor partners Partner with the Security team to ensure the implementation of all safety protocols Serve as a main point of contact for incoming service tickets, ensuring timely updates, proper prioritization, and follow-through Work with vendor partners to keep the office stocked with food, snacks, and pantry supplies, ensuring everything meets our Datadog standard for quality and consistency Maintain inventory of office supplies and ensure timely restocking to support daily operations Arrange fun and engaging events for employees - both on a monthly cadence and an ad hoc basis Work closely with teammates to maintain smooth office operations and ensure consistency across all workplace processes Where required, work alongside various Operations teams to assist with office moves, build-outs and openings Who You Are: A true people person, with an empathetic and friendly demeanor A quick learner who loves tackling challenges and streamlining processes Exceptional time management skills with the ability to multitask effectively A self-starter who takes initiative and drives projects forward Calm and even-tempered, able to maintain composure under press

The Manager of Networking at Datadog leads the global management of network services across all Datadog offices worldwide. This role is responsible for ensuring seamless, high-performance Wi-Fi and direct internet access in our global offices and conference room technology, supporting a rapidly growing global enterprise. As Datadog continues to grow rapidly, this role plays a critical part in scaling both the team and network infrastructure to meet increasing demand. This is a hybrid role that sits in global headquarters in New York city and requires three days in the office each week with occasional travel to our offices around the world. What You’ll Do: Lead the global network engineering teams, managing both full-time employees and third-party vendors to ensure consistent and high-quality service delivery for Datadog offices worldwide. Oversee the design, deployment and scaling of office network infrastructure, including Wi-Fi (Cisco Meraki) and edge networking devices (Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, and others), ensuring these services operate according to Datadog's defined service level objectives. Define and implement standards, policies, and processes for network infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and scalability. Collaborate with IT Security, Enterprise Technology, and Workplace teams to align network services with broader IT and business objectives. Develop and track operational metrics for service availability, network performance, driving continuous improvement and optimization. Who You Are: An experienced people manager with at least 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams of network engineers. Proven expertise in Wi-Fi network engineering, including deep knowledge of Cisco Meraki and edge networking solutions from vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto and Juniper. Experience managing large-scale office technology projects in global enterprises with more than 10 offices and 7,000+ employees, ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with ra

We are Datadog’s in-house technical leaders. The Technical Account Management team drives Datadog’s continued global growth by ensuring our customers realize long-term value from our platform through successful adoption, expansion, and partnership. As a Manager 1 in Technical Account Management, you will lead and develop high-performing technical teams while influencing strategy, execution, and outcomes across customers, internal partners, and the broader organization. Manager 1 leaders at Datadog are people-first managers, trusted collaborators, and operational owners. You will coach and mentor individual contributors, drive execution against team and organizational goals, and serve as a strong voice for customer needs and technical excellence. 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 coach a team of up to 6 Technical Account Managers, providing regular 1:1s, team meetings, and bi-annual performance feedback Own and track team KPIs , including scheduling, utilization, productivity, and delivery outcomes Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Presales, Product Management, Support, and Marketing to align post-sales strategy and execution Lead and participate in customer-facing engagements when appropriate, including escalations, strategic reviews, and key account discussions Drive account strategy discussions focused on product adoption, expansion, and services delivery Actively participate in recruiting , hiring, and onboarding efforts across your team and the broader organization Gather and synthesize customer feedback to influence product direction, process improvements, and internal initiatives Lead multiple OKR initiatives annually , coordinating and delegating efforts across your team Demonstrate thought leadership by identifyi

Datadog's Technical Solutions (TS) organization is one of the largest organizations in the company — spanning Sales Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Enterprise Customer Success Managers, Technical Support Engineers, and Solutions Architects who work with prospects and customers across every stage of their journey with Datadog. Technical Solutions Operations (TSO) exists to make that organization faster, smarter, and more scalable. We build the systems, analytics & programs that give TS teams more leverage — and we measure our success by the business outcomes we drive, not the projects we complete. The programs this team runs touch every function in TS, and the operating model you build will define how that scales. We're looking for a Director of Technical Program Management to lead the TSO Program Management team. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution: you'll own the programs that shape how TS operates at scale, lead a team of technical program managers, and serve as a peer to the Directors and VPs who run the teams you support. Your counterparts are leaders overseeing hundreds of customer-facing technical professionals, and your role is to successfully interface with each organization with proactive solutions on how your team can help them be more effective. This is a rare opportunity to lead a function where the output isn't a deliverable, it's organizational capability. If you want to build something that compounds across an entire organization, this is the role. 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 Run the PMO as a business impact function. Own the PMO operating model end-to-end, including intake, prioritization, scoping, execution, and impact measurement — with every program directly linked to measurable bu

Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides deep visibility into the health, performance, and lifecycle of modern distributed applications, tracing requests from end-user devices (web and mobile) through to backend services. Our goal is to help customers detect root causes faster, optimize application performance, and improve resource efficiency at scale. As the Engineering Manager for APM Serverless, you will help define and deliver the end-to-end serverless APM experience, from auto-instrumentation through troubleshooting, and ensure that OpenTelemetry and Datadog-native customers alike have a frictionless and performant journey. You will also lead efforts to expand coverage of cloud-managed services across providers, ensuring customers can seamlessly trace and monitor critical services in all major and emerging cloud environments. We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and developer experience. You should care about well-designed APIs, observability-first thinking, and building systems that empower other developers. This is a high-leverage role that will influence how developers across the industry understand and instrument their serverless workloads. 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 a polyglot team of 8-9 engineers and partner closely with Product and Engineering teams across Datadog to deliver industry-leading serverless capabilities that power consistent, scalable, and intuitive instrumentation across languages. Drive a domain that is technically rich: Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, OTel billing, Rust, durable functions, distributed tracing across managed services. Engineers on this team work

Our Director, Enterprise Sales will provide strategy, mentorship, and guidance for a team of Enterprise Sales Executives who are responsible for driving new business through the full sales cycle. 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, hire, train and ramp a team of Enterprise Sales Executives responsible for new and expansion bookings Achieve annual Enterprise bookings quota with monthly and quarterly targets Develop and manage Enterprise Sales Executives on productivity metrics such as deal size, win rate, and forecast accuracy as well as how to lead a customer through a proactive sales cycle Coach Sales Executives through building executive relationships with Named Enterprise accounts in their territories and through complex Enterprise deals and negotiations Shape the direction of the go-to market strategy and execution for your region Work collaboratively with Marketing, Product and Success to build targeted messaging and collateral, and mapping a customer journey for the specific business needs of your region Conduct weekly forecast meetings Support direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings. Engaging other corporate resources as required Who You Are: Experienced in managing a high performing Enterprise Sales team for a B2B technology company A strong relationship builder with 5+ years of overall Enterprise sales experience working with Fortune 1000 companies Confident in managing complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders and negotiations with pricing based on business value, legal and procurement Knowledgeable in selling to C-level executives in the IT space Experienced in setting quotas and managing people against those quotas Passionate about coaching others w