Manager I, Engineering - APM SDKs

Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is one of Datadog’s premier products. Our business is growing at a healthy clip, the competition is fierce, and the needs of our customers are ever changing. In our world you either innovate or get left behind. 

Our SDKs are both the delivery vehicle for APM and the platform on which all of Datadog’s service and app based products (e.g. Application Security Management, Profiling, Data Stream Monitoring) are delivered. We believe our SDKs are one of our technical moats and are a key competitive advantage for APM and Datadog more broadly. They’re also open-source.

Leading the evolution of our SDKs is a technically demanding and highly collaborative effort. As manager you’ll partner with Product Managers to deeply understand our customers and our position within the broader observability ecosystem. You’ll work with language experts to deliver cutting-edge observability products across our 9 supported languages, with industry leading performance and a world class developer experience. You’ll rethink our SDKs’ architecture, APIs, data models, and protocol to meet Datadog’s current needs and scale, all while building in the open. And you’ll grow your team’s capacity by fostering a culture focused on customer needs, continuous learning, and innovation. 

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who cares as much about product experience and business value as you do about technical excellence. You must be customer driven and outcome oriented. You understand the trust our customers place in us when they run our code in their applications and your commitment to technical excellence will ensure we maintain that trust. 

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 team of Engineers and work with Product partners to define and deliver industry leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation
• Build cross-language expertise on your team in order to develop coherent SDKs across 9 different supported languages
• Set a high standard for quality and invest in the tooling and process to maintain it
• Own product outcomes, from the quality of implementation to the quality of the user experience
• Collaborate with teams across APM and Datadog to refine or build whatever technology is needed to achieve your north star
• Leverage analytics data to understand what the opportunities are and where to focus next
• Keep up to date with the cutting edge of observability instrumentation in industry to ensure Datadog remains a leader in the category

Who you are

• An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping 
• Deep experience working on or with observability tooling
• A desire to work on client side and open source software
• Customer focused and thinks in terms of experiences, not features
• Highly collaborative
• An ability pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details (and articulate how one impacts the other)
• Possesses one or more of: systems programming experience, observability tooling experience, experience shipping client side software, deep kubernetes experience
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

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 you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 

Benefits and Growth

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.