# Manager I, Engineering - Zero Trust Networking

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: New York, New York
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,000-$240,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog.

As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.

- Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.

- Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.

- Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.

- Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.

- Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.

**Requirements**

- You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.

- You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.

- You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.

- You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.

- You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.

- You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.

**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 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

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- backend infrastructure
- internal platforms
- networking
- security

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