Engineering Manager - Secure Networking & Identity

Datadog, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor programs

Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a growing team focused on fabric zero trust networking, workload identity, authorization, and secure service connectivity.

You will shape the team’s roadmap, coach engineers, and collaborate with security and production‑infrastructure partners to deliver reliable, secure platforms. You’ll balance technical leadership with people management, foster cross‑team collaboration across locations and time zones, and ensure high standards for

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend infrastructure in production.
• Strong cross‑team communication and collaboration across locations/time zones.
• Fundamental understanding of networking and security and how to enforce security on production traffic.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers with clear expectations and career development.
• Define technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege access.
• Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization and TLS/mTLS enforcement, network segmentation, and egress controls.
• Make security capabilities easy to adopt through secure defaults, policy abstractions, migration tooling, and diagnostics.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts with testing and observability.
• Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production‑infrastructure teams to align priorities and deliver across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

Leadership

Coaching

Networking basics

Job description

Datadog, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a growing team focused on fabric zero trust networking, workload identity, authorization, and secure service connectivity.

You will shape the team’s roadmap, coach engineers, and collaborate with security and production‑infrastructure partners to deliver reliable, secure platforms. You’ll balance technical leadership with people management, foster cross‑team collaboration across locations and time zones, and ensure high standards for