Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Training & Serving

Datadog; Paris; Hybride; EUR 130 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive culture

Global benefits

Mental health benefits

Résumé du poste

Datadog is seeking an engineering manager for the Training & Serving team to lead the growth of a fast-moving group focused on distributed training and serving of AI models. You will shape the technical vision, guide the roadmap, and coordinate with core platform, Applied AI, and infrastructure teams.

You will foster a strong team culture, balance hands-on leadership with strategic planning, and ensure high-quality software delivery in a rapidly evolving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams (1+ years).
• Hands-on engineering leader comfortable coding and reviewing.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams (product/science).

Responsabilités

• Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers.
• Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals.
• Work with core platform teams to tailor storage, infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Create a strong team culture aligned with engineering standards and customer focus.
• Participate in hands-on work: code reviews, design reviews and some coding.

Connaissances

People management

Team leadership

Hands-on engineering

Backend experience

Infra expertise

Outils

Kubernetes

Terraform

Description du poste

The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog. Our mission is to provide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI, LLMObs and all our AI research.

As an engineering manager for the Training & Serving team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: distributed training of foundation models, serving at scale, designing the user experience.

You’ll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. You’ll also partner with the Applied AI org and with Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up.

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:

• Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers
• Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap.
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage, infrastructure and data pipelines to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding

Who You Are:

• Previous experience (1+ years) leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
• Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
• Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• You build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and science, and skillfully coordinate among multiple stakeholders
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and making decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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

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About Datadog:

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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