Manager I, Engineering - Source Code Integration

Datadog; Paris (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Mentor programs

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a hands-on technical leader to grow our platform and lead a team of engineers building scalable backend services. You will drive architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with product teams to deliver high-impact features at scale.

In this role you will own delivery, foster a culture of excellence, and help shape the roadmap for Go, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and distributed systems in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on backend leader with strong systems design and mentoring experience.
• Proven ability to scale platform services and complex data pipelines.
• Collaborates closely with product teams and stakeholders to drive roadmap decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and cultivate a team of engineers with diverse experience levels.
• Drive technical and strategic discussions to address challenges and opportunities.
• Own and manage relationships with product teams and major stakeholders, prioritizing impact.
• Manage lightweight processes to pace work, with demos and iterative delivery.
• Stay hands-on when needed to unblock the team by writing code or troubleshooting.
• Support internal and external customers to resolve issues and improve the platform.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Job description

Source Code Integration enables Product teams at Datadog to develop features that leverage our customers’ source code. This brings the platform closer to developers, as it helps them relate their telemetry to code to run automated investigations, debug their services with stack traces and profiles, scan their code for security issues, or make proactive fixes, among others. The team owns all the platform services, infrastructure and integrations required to access and synchronize our customer repositories in a secure, reliable and efficient manner.

We are looking for a hands‑on technical leader to drive the growth of our platform, as Datadog shifts left and becomes more developer-friendly and AI‑ready. In this role you will lead the growth of our platform to support an increasing number of high profile features and teams, and work with a team of engineers of varied experience levels to shape our roadmap and deliver impactful solutions at scale.

At Datadog, 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 cultivate a team of engineers of diverse experience levels, including performance management and career development
• Lead technical and strategical discussions to better understand the challenges and opportunities faced by our team and our stakeholders
• Own and drive the relationships with product teams and major stakeholders, balancing competing requests with long term investments, and prioritizing impact across the whole platform
• Run a lightweight process to pace and track what we work on. Support the progressive delivery of high quality work through demos and frequent iteration
• Stay in touch with your team’s systems, and roll up your sleeves when needed to unblock your team by writing code or troubleshooting issues
• Support both internal and external customers resolve their issues, and find systematic solutions that elevate our platform and integration experience

What we’re looking for:

• A good collaborator, an enabler, a natural leader that puts people first
• A backend engineer at heart, with experience building robust systems composed of multiple services, data streams and stores operating at scale
• Significant experience with major backend technologies (e.g. Go, Python, or Java, PostgreSQL, Kafka), event driven architecture and or distributed systems
• Experience running platform services, comfortable making tradeoffs and balancing short term impact with long term sustainability. Proven ability to work closely with product and internal teams to deliver solutions at scale
• Passion to work in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment providing leadership and direction for a highly technical team
• Positivity and proactivity towards AI. Experience using agentic tools for development and analysis

Benefits and Growth:

• High income earning opportunities based on individual performance
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
• 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 Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Giving programs

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