Engineering Manager II, Observability Pipelines

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Fitness reimbursements

Discounted ESPP

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager II to lead the Observability Pipelines org in NYC and globally. You'll grow the management and technical leadership, partner with Product on the roadmap, and shape how the team scales as it expands.

You'll manage distributed teams, guide high-throughput data infrastructure decisions, and align engineering work with business outcomes while fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture across offices.

Qualifications

• Experience managing managers across distributed teams.
• Background in distributed systems and high-throughput data infrastructure.
• Familiar with on-premises software and the operational tradeoffs it introduces.
• A strategic partner to Product who helps set the roadmap, not just execute against it.
• Commercially aware: connect engineering decisions to business outcomes.
• Experience with Rust-based data pipeline systems is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage the Observability Pipelines org including EM1s across NYC and Paris, set technical direction, and be the connective tissue across a distributed team.
• Build out the management and technical leadership layers as the org grows—today ~20 ICs.
• Partner directly with Product to co-own the roadmap and strategy, helping decide where OP's engineering investment goes next.
• Set and evolve the operating rhythm across the group: planning cadence, on-call and incident standards, and cross-team alignment.
• Own key cross-org relationships with the SaaS Logs Pipelines team, the BYOC team, and the Vector open-source community.
• Coach managers and senior engineers, and build the succession and growth plans that let the org scale beyond you.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership of leaders

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic product partnership

Tools

Rust

On-premise software

Incident management

Job description

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager II to lead the Observability Pipelines org in NYC and globally. You'll grow the management and technical leadership, partner with Product on the roadmap, and shape how the team scales as it expands.

You'll manage distributed teams, guide high-throughput data infrastructure decisions, and align engineering work with business outcomes while fostering an inclusive, collaborative culture across offices.