Datadog is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Org Management & Governance (OMG) team. This team plays a pivotal role in enabling customers to manage Datadog at scale.
As the EM for OMG, you’ll guide a high-impact team of engineers responsible for the Datadog Teams product, a foundational capability that allows customers to map their org structure, assign ownership, and route alerts to the right team. Beyond Teams, the OMG team also partners on broader governance initiatives, including tagging enforcement, access policy frameworks, and support for multi-org customers with complex compliance needs.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- Guide and mentor a diverse team of 6-8 software engineers, fostering their career growth while ensuring high team performance.
- Actively invest in team members’ career development by providing regular feedback and support.
- Drive the technical roadmap in collaboration with your team and product managers ensuring it aligns with company objectives and directly contributes to improving the customer experience.
- Engage strategically with complex technical problems and work with your team to produce well-defined and actionable plans.
- Stay in touch with your team’s systems, and roll up your sleeves when needed to unblock your team by writing code or troubleshooting issues.
- Foster an engineering culture that prioritizes operational excellence, ensuring that the team’s deliverables are well-engineered and set new standards for quality and reliability.
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Datadog’s engineering management team.
Who You Are:
- You have proven experience managing teams that built and operated business-critical systems.
- You have demonstrated ability in designing, building, and operating distributed systems to solve problems at scale.
- You are an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work effectively through complex technical problems with a diverse group of stakeholders.
- You are comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, able to adapt strategies and solutions in response to emerging challenges and opportunities.
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 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 other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Your Privacy:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
