Manager I, Engineering - Client SDKs (Mobile & Browser)

Datadog, Inc.; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for Client SDKs in a hybrid setup. You will lead a team of senior engineers, drive CI/CD, and own release processes for SDKs used across customer apps. You will partner with product teams and shape developer experience at scale.

You will guide design-to-release, ensure compatibility, and explore AI coding agents to improve workflows while supporting a healthy, collaborative engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineers including seniors.
• Shipped and maintained SDKs, libraries, or developer tools.
• Knowledge of release engineering, CI/CD, versioning, and backwards compatibility.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow a team of senior software engineers.
• Own CI and test infrastructure across SDK repos and provide local run frameworks.
• Define release cadences and manage breaking changes in SDKs.
• Maintain consistency with a shared specification and streamline shipping.
• Partner with product teams to guide SDK changes from design to release.
• Build feature sets for new product capabilities and support AI coding agents.

Skills

Team management

SDKs and developer tools

Release engineering

CI/CD

Cross-team collaboration

Influencing without authority

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Versioning

Testing frameworks

Job description

Madrid, Spain; Paris, France

As the Engineering Manager for Client SDKs, you'll build and lead the team that makes it easy for any team at Datadog to ship into those SDKs safely: fast CI, predictable releases, a shared spec across SDKs, and tooling that lets engineers and coding agents contribute without waiting on a review queue. It's a rare chance to own a developer platform that ships in public, at a scale where small decisions reach a lot of customers, and to shape how Datadog builds client-side products in the AI-native era. Both the team and its scope are expanding, so there's plenty of room to grow.

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:

Build, lead, and grow a team of mostly senior software engineers, hiring well and helping senior and staff engineers grow their impact and careers

Own CI and test infrastructure across the SDK repositories: set health targets, detect and quarantine flaky tests, and provide test frameworks that engineers and coding agents can run locally

Define release cadences and help customers adopt updates, managing breaking changes in SDKs that can't be rolled back once they're installed in customers' apps

Keep SDKs consistent through a shared specification, and remove the review bottleneck so product teams can ship SDK changes without waiting on a small group of experts

Partner with product teams such as Session Replay, Product Analytics, and Feature Flags, along with our SDK guilds and server SDK teams, to guide SDK changes from design to release

Build feature sets for new product capabilities and bring that to all partner teams

Bring AI coding agents into how the team builds, tests, and ships, and take part in business-hours release, hotfix, and support escalation duty (no 24/7 pager)

Who You Are:

Experienced in managing a team of software engineers, including senior engineers

Someone who has shipped and maintained SDKs, libraries, or developer tools that other engineers depend on

Knowledgeable in release engineering, CI/CD, versioning, and backwards compatibility

Able to influence other teams without formal authority and build alignment across product teams

Nice to Have:

Open source maintainer experience, especially working with outside contributors

Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, or OpenTelemetry SDKs

Familiarity with cross-platform frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform

Experience leading a platform or developer experience team

Experience using AI coding agents in your team's workflow

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+

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Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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