Manager I, Engineering - AI Developer Products

United States Digital Space LLC; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor program

Community Guilds

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building AI-powered developer tools, shipping with AI agents in production and collaborating on architecture with staff-level engineers. You will own the technical vision and drive delivery for an early-stage product backed by a mature data and engineering platform.

This role blends startup-like experimentation with the scale of a leading observability company, offering a hybrid work model and a clear path to impact across developer

Qualifications

• Shipping code with AI agents in production.
• Thrives in early-stage environments with shifting roadmaps.
• Strong viewpoint on AI coding tools and gaps to close.
• Deep technical depth in full-stack development (TypeScript/React).
• Experience building developer-facing tooling with focus on speed and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered developer tools.
• Own the product's technical direction and architectural decisions.
• Reduce developer cycle time while improving correctness and trust.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to shape an early roadmap.
• Establish planning, delivery, quality, and operational rhythm for services.

Skills

Team leadership

AI developer tools

Full-stack development

TypeScript

React

Systems-level work

Hiring and ramp-up

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Manager I, Engineering - AI Developer Products

Everyone is building agent orchestrators; we think the harder problem is verification - knowing whether what an agent produced actually works, against real systems, before it ships.

We’ve spent a decade collecting the production truth that makes that answerable, and we're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team turning it into a developer tool. You'll own the surfaces where developers work with coding agents day to day. This is early-stage product work with the distribution, data, and engineering depth of an established company behind it, and your first users will be the company's own engineers, giving you feedback loops measured in hours.

*At the company, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.*

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered developer tools, owning hiring, ramp-up, and career development
• Own the technical direction for the product we’re shipping, partnering closely with staff-level engineers on architecture decisions.
• Drive down developer cycle time while raising the bar on correctness - making AI-assisted development both faster and more trustworthy
• Partner with Product and Design to shape the roadmap for an early-stage product, translating ambiguous problems into shippable scope
• Establish the execution rhythm for your team: planning, delivery, quality, and operational ownership of the services you build

Who You Are:

• You’re actively shipping code with AI agents in production
• You thrive in early-stage environments where the roadmap shifts and the right answer isn't known yet.
• You have a genuine point of view on AI coding tools - where they help today, where they fall short, and what it would take to close the gap.
• You have strong technical depth in full-stack development (TypeScript/React and systems-level work) and stay close enough to the code to earn the trust of senior engineers
• You've built developer-facing products or tooling where speed, reliability, and developer experience were hard requirements

*the company values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.*

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (the company employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

*Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with the company.*

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About the company:

the company is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, the company enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the company Learning Center.

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