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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Manager I, Engineering - Anomaly Detection

Datadog New York, New York Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$192,000-$240,000 USD per year

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Description

The Anomaly Detection team’s mission is to build scalable, cost-effective systems that can automatically detect anomalies in customers’ system telemetry.

You will lead and develop an existing engineering team of 8, building trust, setting technical direction, and establishing a high bar for ownership and execution.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning the roadmap and execution for key signal finding systems
  • Working closely with product management and applied scientists to build an effective detection system
  • Building and operating traditional machine learning and LLM-based systems in production at scale
  • Driving the team's AI-native development practices, setting high standards for safety, validation, and increasing agent autonomy over time

Requirements:

  • Experienced engineering manager with a track record of shipping robust and scalable distributed systems with AI and/or ML components
  • Distributed systems experience is a must-have
  • Experience with Java, Python, or Go, and experience working in a platform-focused team
  • Strong cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management skills
  • Comfortable making significant contributions to product strategy in an ambiguous environment

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
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents
  • Competitive global benefits

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000-$240,000 USD

Skills

Nice to have

  • Flink
  • Kafka
  • ML model building

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/datadog/jobs/8259839

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