Description
The Security Libraries team at Datadog owns customer-side integrations for run-time security products, including App & API Protection, Workload Protection, and Code Security. They maintain security capabilities across seven open-source language libraries (.NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP) and HTTP proxy integrations (Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy), operating in thousands of production clusters worldwide.
As Engineering Manager, you'll lead part of this polyglot team, setting the technical bar and team culture while driving the pace of new detections and AI-assisted capabilities. This hands-on role balances people leadership, product and roadmap ownership, and operational health of code running in production at massive scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers, coaching, giving direct feedback, and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders.
- Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews, and the on-call rotation.
- Set product direction with Product Management and balance priorities across App & API Protection, Workload Protection, and Code Security.
- Stay technically close to the work, applying strong technical judgment, contributing code where it matters most, and keeping quality and architecture high.
- Build strong relationships and drive alignment across language teams and product, backend, and frontend partners.
- Shape team identity and culture, and own accountability when problems occur.
Requirements
- Experience managing a team of engineers, setting direction with Product Managers, owning a backlog, and running delivery.
- A senior software-engineering background with strong technical judgment.
- A track record of developing people: coaching, direct feedback, and helping engineers grow.
- Strong cross-team communication, comfortable driving alignment across many stakeholders.
- Experience building libraries, SDKs, developer tooling, or systems/run-time software.
- Pragmatic product-engineering experience, weighing technical trade-offs against customer impact.
Nice to Have
- An application security background (WAF, RASP, IAST/SCA) or adjacent observability/APM experience.
- Hands-on experience with one of the languages (.NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP) or open-source stewardship.
- Experience leading distributed or multi-language teams across many stakeholders.
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 Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
- Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions.
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents.
- Competitive global benefits.