Manager I, Engineering - Core Analytics

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Access to mental health benefits

Job summary

A leading technology firm in New York is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager for their Core Analytics Data Access Platform. This role involves leading a small team of engineers, defining technical direction, and contributing to both design and code. The successful candidate will have a strong background in data pipelines and will work closely with multiple teams to ensure reliable datasets. A competitive salary and extensive employee benefits are included in the package.

Qualifications

• Hands-on manager capable of leading and contributing to a small team.
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and data engineering at scale.
• Familiarity with production systems and operational metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of data engineers across locations.
• Define engineering priorities for platform development.
• Contribute actively to coding and platform performance.

Skills

Data Pipelines

AWS

Spark

Iceberg

Job description

Overview

You will lead a small, hands-on engineering team building the secure, scalable Core Analytics Data Access Platform that accelerates Datadog’s Applied AI and analytics capabilities. The team owns the Data Access Platform — a unified interface that lets AI and analytics teams discover and self-serve production-ready datasets while abstracting underlying systems and embedding required legal and compliance guardrails. In this role you’ll own technical direction, contribute to design and code, and partner closely with Applied AI, Product Analytics, and internal platform teams to provide reliable datasets and APIs for model training and analysis. This role balances day-to-day engineering leadership with long-term platform planning and can evolve to EM2 as the platform grows in scope and impact.

Datadog values office culture and hybrid work arrangements. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a Hands-On Engineering Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a small team of 2–4 data engineers (mix of senior and junior) across Paris and NYC, fostering technical excellence and career development.
• Own Technical Direction and Delivery: Define architecture, engineering priorities, and the team roadmap for the Data Access Platform, driving implementation of scalable, secure data pipelines and platform services.
• Contribute to Design and Code: Spend substantial time coding, reviewing, and shipping critical platform components to ensure performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Internal Stakeholders: Work closely with Applied AI, Internal Product Analytics, product managers, and platform teams to define data contracts, APIs, SLAs, observability, and curated analytical datasets.
• Ensure Data Security, Governance, and Reliability: Implement access controls, lineage, monitoring, and compliance guardrails to support safe model training and repeatable analytics workflows.
• Plan and Scale the Platform: Evolve storage, processing frameworks, API patterns, and operational practices to enable broader adoption and prepare the platform for increased scope and usage.

Who You Are

• Hands-On Engineering Manager who enjoys managing a small team while remaining an active contributor to design and code.
• Experienced in Data Pipelines and At-Scale Data Engineering, with practical experience building ETL/ELT, streaming and/or batch workflows, and production data servicing layers.
• Practical Knowledge of Our Core Stack: production experience with AWS, Spark, and Iceberg (or equivalent table formats and compute frameworks).
• Collaborative Partner to Data Scientists and Analysts: track record working with applied ML teams, data scientists, and analytics consumers to operationalize data for model training and analysis.
• Operationally Strong: experience defining SLAs, building observability, running incident response, and enforcing data governance in production systems.
• Pragmatic Architect and Deliverer: able to balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture and make tradeoffs that advance product and platform goals.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, 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 (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

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

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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, and 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:

$187,000 — $240,000 USD

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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