Engineering Manager, Agent SDLC & AI Tooling

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSU equity

ESPP

Professional development

MEDDIC training

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Manager II, Engineering for Datadog Agent SDLC to lead the developer experience, build systems, and security across a multi‑language, multi‑platform codebase. You will guide AI coding enablement and scale the SDLC for hundreds of contributors while improving velocity, reliability, and safety.

You will mentor managers and engineers across geographies, shaping patterns for open‑source projects and driving modern build infrastructure in a hybrid workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience owning software development lifecycle systems and developer infrastructure.
• First‑hand experience with AI coding tools and flows.
• Familiar with complex multi‑language development environments, CI/CD, remote build execution and caching; Bazel or similar build systems is a plus.

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 ownership

Developer infrastructure

CI/CD

AI coding tools

Multi-language development

Team leadership

Tools

Bazel

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Manager II, Engineering for Datadog Agent SDLC to lead the developer experience, build systems, and security across a multi‑language, multi‑platform codebase. You will guide AI coding enablement and scale the SDLC for hundreds of contributors while improving velocity, reliability, and safety.

You will mentor managers and engineers across geographies, shaping patterns for open‑source projects and driving modern build infrastructure in a hybrid workplace.