Engineering Manager, Language Platform & SDKs

JobFluent; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of library engineers and drive the next evolution of our SDKs for APM across multiple languages. You’ll balance technical excellence with empowering other engineering teams, shaping architecture, APIs, data models, and protocols to meet Datadog’s needs at scale.

You’ll collaborate with language experts to deliver cutting-edge observability products in a hybrid work environment, fostering a culture focused on customer needs,

Qualifications

• Experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping high-quality software.
• A strong, empathetic leader capable of building and guiding high-performing teams.
• Ability to translate high-level product narratives into detailed technical implementations.
• Significant programming experience in one or more: Go, C, Rust.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4–8 library engineers—coach, give direct feedback, and empower senior ICs as technical leaders.
• Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews.
• Collaborate with Product teams to reshape and grow platform capabilities for product teams.
• Define and deliver industry-leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation.
• Stay technically close to the work—apply strong technical judgment and maintain high quality and architecture standards.
• Build strong relationships and drive alignment across language teams and product, backend.
• Shape team identity and culture.

Skills

Team leadership

Shipping software

Go

Rust

C

Job description

Datadog is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of library engineers and drive the next evolution of our SDKs for APM across multiple languages. You’ll balance technical excellence with empowering other engineering teams, shaping architecture, APIs, data models, and protocols to meet Datadog’s needs at scale.

You’ll collaborate with language experts to deliver cutting-edge observability products in a hybrid work environment, fostering a culture focused on customer needs,