Engineering Manager, Security Libraries & AI-Driven

Datadog, Inc.; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive culture and Community Guilds

Inclusion Talks

Global mental health benefits

Competitive global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a polyglot team of library engineers responsible for run-time security capabilities across multiple languages. You will balance people leadership with hands-on coding, shaping product direction with PMs and maintaining high-quality architecture.

You will work in a hybrid environment, coordinating with backend, frontend, and product teams while driving engineering excellence and team growth across the security portfolio.

Qualifications

• Seasoned engineering leader with proven people-management experience.
• Strong software engineering background across multiple languages.
• Experience building libraries, SDKs, or runtime tooling.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration and communication.
• Willingness to balance hands-on coding with people leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of library engineers (4–8).
• Own delivery, planning, milestones, reviews, and on-call rotation.
• Set product direction with Product Management across App & API Protection, Workload Protection, and Code Security.
• Stay technically close to the work—contribute code where it matters and maintain quality.
• Foster strong relationships and alignment across language teams and product/engineering partners.
• Shape team identity and culture, owning accountability when problems occur.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Cross-team communication

Product collaboration

Mentorship

Tools

.NET

Java

Go

Node.js

Python

Ruby

PHP

Job description

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a polyglot team of library engineers responsible for run-time security capabilities across multiple languages. You will balance people leadership with hands-on coding, shaping product direction with PMs and maintaining high-quality architecture.

You will work in a hybrid environment, coordinating with backend, frontend, and product teams while driving engineering excellence and team growth across the security portfolio.