Engineering Manager, Data Plane Platform (Rust Migration)

Datadog, Inc.; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development programs

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive culture and community groups

Inclusion Talks

Global mental health benefits

Job summary

Datadog seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a five-person team for the Agent Data Plane project. You will mentor engineers, coordinate with the technical lead, and drive the migration of data pipelines from Go to Rust to improve performance and reliability on customer infrastructure.

You will partner with senior engineers, influence architectural decisions, and help scale the platform for broader internal use while maintaining Datadog’s high standards for reliability and on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• Strong individual contributor background (5+ years) with trust from senior engineers.
• 2+ years of hands-on systems programming in Rust, C++, Go, or C.
• Experience guiding teams through incidents and migrations.
• Experience replacing widely used technology and communicating with affected teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers across Madrid and the US.
• Own planning and delivery for Agent Data Plane migration from Go to Rust.
• Build relationships with logs, metrics, traces, and checks teams and the APM Agent team.
• Evolve Agent Data Plane into a reusable platform with minimal support.
• Collaborate on design decisions for performance, resource usage, and reliability.
• Represent the team in cross-team discussions and shape on-call rotation.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical depth

Migration planning

Incident leadership

Tools

Rust

Go

C/C++

Job description

Datadog seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a five-person team for the Agent Data Plane project. You will mentor engineers, coordinate with the technical lead, and drive the migration of data pipelines from Go to Rust to improve performance and reliability on customer infrastructure.

You will partner with senior engineers, influence architectural decisions, and help scale the platform for broader internal use while maintaining Datadog’s high standards for reliability and on-call readiness.