Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Evaluation & Annotation

United States Digital Space LLC; 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

Mentorship program

Inclusion Talks

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Evaluation & Annotation team to help scale our AI platform. You will lead 4–6 engineers, shape the technical vision, and partner with AI platform and Applied AI teams to build scalable data pipelines and tooling.

You’ll drive hands-on engineering with code reviews and design reviews while fostering a strong, inclusive culture focused on delivering high-quality software on a tight iteration cycle.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams (tech lead or people manager).
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build high-performing teams.
• Interest in early-stage projects with rapid iteration.
• Track record delivering high-quality software on schedule with product partners.
• Hands-on leader with backend, data engineering, and infrastructure experience.
• Inclusive culture values diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team, directly managing 4-6 engineers.
• Define the technical roadmap aligned with AI platform goals and the Applied AI roadmap.
• Collaborate with core platform teams to tailor storage and data pipelines to needs.
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and customer focus.
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding.

Skills

Leadership

Team building

Hands-on coding

Backend development

Data engineering

Infrastructure

Job description

The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across the company. Our mission is to provide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI, LLMObs and all our AI research.

As an engineering manager for the Evaluation & Annotation team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: AI model evaluation both offline and online, designing tooling and processes around human annotation, and establishing the standard around synthetics and AI generated datasets.

You’ll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. You’ll also partner with the Applied AI org and with the company infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up.

*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:

• Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team, directly managing 4-6 engineers
• Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap.
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor the company's storage and data pipelines to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding

Who You Are:

• A Software Engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
• Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners.
• Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
• 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.

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 networkingAn 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.*

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.

Equal Opportunity at the company:

the company is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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