Manager I, Engineering - APM SDKs

Datadog
US - Massachusetts - Boston
January 13, 2025

Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA
Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is one of Datadog's premier products.
Our business is growing at a healthy clip, the competition is fierce, and the needs of our customers are ever changing.
In our world you either innovate or get left behind.
Our SDKs are both the delivery vehicle for APM and the platform on which all of Datadog's service and app based products (e.g.
Application Security Management, Profiling, Data Stream Monitoring) are delivered.
We believe our SDKs are one of our technical moats and are a key competitive advantage for APM and Datadog more broadly.
They're also open-source.
Leading the evolution of our SDKs is a technically demanding and highly collaborative effort.
As manager you'll partner with Product Managers to deeply understand our customers and our position within the broader observability ecosystem.
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.
You'll rethink our SDKs' architecture, APIs, data models, and protocol to meet Datadog's current needs and scale, all while building in the open.
And you'll grow your team's capacity by fostering a culture focused on customer needs, continuous learning, and innovation.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager who cares as much about product experience and business value as you do about technical excellence.
You must be customer driven and outcome oriented.
You understand the trust our customers place in us when they run our code in their applications and your commitment to technical excellence will ensure we maintain that trust.
What you'll do
Lead a team of Engineers and work with Product partners to define and deliver industry leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation
Build cross-language expertise on your team in order to develop coherent SDKs across 9 different supported languages
Set a high standard for quality and invest in the tooling and process to maintain it
Own product outcomes, from the quality of implementation to the quality of the user experience
Collaborate with teams across APM and Datadog to refine or build whatever technology is needed to achieve your north star
Leverage analytics data to understand what the opportunities are and where to focus next
Keep up to date with the cutting edge of observability instrumentation in industry to ensure Datadog remains a leader in the category
Who you are
An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
Deep experience working on or with observability tooling
A desire to work on client side and open source software
Customer focused and thinks in terms of experiences, not features
Highly collaborative
An ability to pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details (and articulate how one impacts the other)
Possesses one or more of:
systems programming experience, observability tooling experience, experience shipping client side software, deep kubernetes experience
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience
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+
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$187,000 - $240,000 USD
Datadog (NASDAQ:
DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability.
We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks.
Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.
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