Manager I, Engineering - APM Serverless

Datadog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Job summary

Datadog is seeking an Engineering Manager for APM Serverless to drive end-to-end serverless instrumentation, from auto-instrumentation to troubleshooting, across AWS, Azure and GCP.

You will lead a polyglot team of 8–9 engineers and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver industry-leading serverless capabilities and open telemetry support.

This role rewards collaboration, obsession with clean APIs, and building reliable, scalable systems that empower developers.

Qualifications

• Shipping products as an engineering manager with a proven track record.
• Experience leading a polyglot team of engineers across languages.
• Proficient in two or more languages and cross-runtime systems.
• Passion for libraries and OSS software development.
• Focus on developer experience and reliable APIs.
• Ability to connect high-level product narratives with technical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a polyglot team of 8-9 engineers delivering serverless instrumentation across languages.
• Drive a domain that spans Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, and OTel billing; work across clouds and deployment models.
• Partner with Product to shape strategy and execution for AWS, Azure, and GCP services.

Skills

Shipping products

Collaborative

Two+ languages

OSS experience

API design

Developer experience

Stakeholder management

Job description

Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides deep visibility into the health, performance, and lifecycle of modern distributed applications, tracing requests from end-user devices (web and mobile) through to backend services. Our goal is to help customers detect root causes faster, optimize application performance, and improve resource efficiency at scale.

As the Engineering Manager for APM Serverless, you will help define and deliver the end-to-end serverless APM experience, from auto-instrumentation through troubleshooting, and ensure that OpenTelemetry and Datadog-native customers alike have a frictionless and performant journey. You will also lead efforts to expand coverage of cloud-managed services across providers, ensuring customers can seamlessly trace and monitor critical services in all major and emerging cloud environments.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and developer experience. You should care about well-designed APIs, observability-first thinking, and building systems that empower other developers. This is a high-leverage role that will influence how developers across the industry understand and instrument their serverless workloads.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a polyglot team of 8-9 engineers and partner closely with Product and Engineering teams across Datadog to deliver industry-leading serverless capabilities that power consistent, scalable, and intuitive instrumentation across languages.
• Drive a domain that is technically rich: Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, OTel billing, Rust, durable functions, distributed tracing across managed services. Engineers on this team work across languages, clouds, and deployment models — and the problems they solve are genuinely hard.
• Partner with the product manager to shape the strategy and execution for our 3 main clouds - AWS, Azure and GCP, in addition to being at the cutting edge of new managed platforms and how we can bring distributed tracing to them.

Who You Are:

• An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping products.
• Highly collaborative
• Experienced in two or more languages and comfortable building cross-runtime systems.
• Have a passion for libraries and OSS software development
• You care about developer experience, clean APIs, and reliable systems.
• An ability to pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details (and articulate how one impacts the other)
• You are comfortable with partner and stakeholder management

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Interdepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog 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 Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive, and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000—$240,000 USD

About Datadog:

Datadog 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, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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