Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization

You will lead a global team spanning graphing, dashboards, data visualization, notebooks, search experiences, and emerging AI-powered interfaces, partnering closely with Product and Design to make complex data intuitive and actionable.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization, setting technical and organizational direction across graphing, dashboards, notebooks, search, data visualization, and related data exploration experiences
• Develop engineering leaders and senior engineers across a large organization, building an environment that supports strong technical execution, collaboration, and continued growth
• Partner closely with Product and Design to make complex, high-volume data understandable and actionable for users with different needs and technical backgrounds
• Guide the evolution of the systems, frameworks, and interfaces that enable teams across Datadog to build performant, consistent, and high-quality data visualization experiences
• Advance AI-powered product experiences by enabling agents and conversational interfaces to reliably create graphs, visualizations, and dynamic data experiences
• Influence product and engineering strategy across Datadog by bringing deep expertise in visualization, performance, user experience, and large-scale product engineering

Requirements:

• An experienced engineering leader who has led a large, multi-team engineering organization and developed engineering managers and senior technical leaders
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for data-intensive products, visualization platforms, analytics, business intelligence, notebooks, or other products where presenting complex information clearly is central to the user experience
• A strong partner to Product and Design, with experience making technical and product decisions where usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture are closely connected
• Technically grounded, with a computer science or equivalent technical background and the ability to engage deeply on software architecture, performance, and systems tradeoffs
• Experience building performant product experiences and solving engineering challenges involving large or complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computationally intensive workflows
• Interested in how AI-assisted development and agent-based interfaces are changing the way users create, explore, and interact with software and data

Benefits:

• 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