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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Manager I, Engineering - Language Platform

Datadog Lisbon Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

We're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the evolution of our SDKs, a technically demanding and highly collaborative effort. You'll work with language experts to deliver cutting-edge observability products across 9 supported languages.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers
  • Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews
  • Collaborate with Product teams to reshape and grow our platform capabilities
  • Stay technically close to the work, applying strong technical judgment and setting a high standard for quality
  • Build strong relationships and drive alignment across language teams and product, backend

Requirements

  • Experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
  • Strong and empathetic leader with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
  • Significant programming experience in one or more of: Go, C, Rust

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
  • Inclusive company culture, ability to join Community Guilds
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents

Skills

Required

  • Go
  • C
  • Rust
  • systems programming
  • observability tooling

Nice to have

  • Go runtime expertise
  • client side software experience

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