Description
We're looking for 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 our 9 supported languages, with industry leading performance and a world-class developer experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers , coaching, giving direct feedback, and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders owning outcomes
- Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews
- Collaborate with Product teams to reshape and grow our platform capabilities, define and deliver industry-leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation
- Stay technically close to the work, applying strong technical judgment, setting a high standard for quality, contributing code where it matters most, and keeping quality and architecture high
- Build strong relationships and drive alignment across the language teams and product, backend
- Shape team identity and culture
Requirements:
- Experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
- Strong and empathetic leader with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams to deliver high-quality software
- Ability to pivot from high-level product narratives to highly technical implementation details
- 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 (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits