Engineering Leader, AI-Driven SDLC & Build Systems

Datadog, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity (RSU) & ESPP

Professional development

Product training

Mentor program

Community Guilds

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Manager II, Engineering for the Datadog Agent SDLC to lead developer experience, build systems, and security across languages.

You will own software supply-chain security, guide the Agent's lifecycle, scale coordination across geographies, and drive AI coding enablement within the Agent ecosystem.

Datadog offers a hybrid workplace, a competitive salary with stock options, and a broad benefits program to support growth and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience owning software development lifecycle systems and developer infrastructure.
• Experience with AI coding tools and flows.
• Experience leading multiple teams through technical and organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering teams responsible for the Agent developer experience, build systems, correctness, and performance benchmarking platforms.
• Own software supply-chain security for a public repository that ships into customer infrastructure - provenance, signing, dependency and contribution review, and the new risks coding agents introduce.
• Evolve the Agent software development lifecycle to support hundreds of contributors while improving developer velocity, reliability, and security.
• Drive AI coding enablement across the Agent ecosystem, adapting development workflows and infrastructure as engineers increasingly work alongside coding agents.
• Guide the evolution of build infrastructure for a complex, multi-language, multi-platform codebase, including the continued adoption and development of modern build systems.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and staff engineers across multiple geographies.

Skills

Software lifecycle

AI tooling

CI/CD

Staff engineering

Tools

Bazel

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Manager II, Engineering for the Datadog Agent SDLC to lead developer experience, build systems, and security across languages.

You will own software supply-chain security, guide the Agent's lifecycle, scale coordination across geographies, and drive AI coding enablement within the Agent ecosystem.

Datadog offers a hybrid workplace, a competitive salary with stock options, and a broad benefits program to support growth and collaboration.