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