The Frontend Framework team at Datadog builds and maintains the core monorepo architecture and tooling that powers the work of over 500 frontend engineers. As an Engineering Manager on this team, you’ll lead a tightly knit group of engineers responsible for shaping shared infrastructure—enabling teams to ship scalable, performant, and consistent product experiences across Datadog.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility leadership role for someone who thrives on solving complex developer experience challenges, mentoring engineers, and influencing long-term technical direction. If you’re excited about developer tooling, performance, and empowering hundreds of engineers, we’d love to meet you.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead a team of 6 engineers working on architecture, tooling, and shared components for Datadog’s frontend monorepo
- Define a clear technical vision and roadmap, and align it with company-wide engineering goals
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers and partner teams to ensure the tools and patterns you build meet real-world needs
- Contribute to the team’s work through design reviews, architectural decisions, and hands-on technical contributions
- Mentor and support engineers through feedback, goal setting, and career development
Who You Are:
- Proven experience (1+ years) leading frontend engineering teams with a strong focus on developer experience.
- Deep technical expertise in modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, CSS), with recent hands-on coding experience
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams and functions
- Experience mentoring engineers at different stages of their careers
- Strong interest in frontend performance, architecture, and helping others move fast without breaking things
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
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
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
About Datadog:
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. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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