Manager I, Engineering - Zero Trust Networking

Datadog, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

ESPP

Professional development

Mentor programs

Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a growing team focused on fabric zero trust networking, workload identity, authorization, and secure service connectivity.

You will shape the team’s roadmap, coach engineers, and collaborate with security and production‑infrastructure partners to deliver reliable, secure platforms. You’ll balance technical leadership with people management, foster cross‑team collaboration across locations and time zones, and ensure high standards for

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend infrastructure in production.
• Strong cross‑team communication and collaboration across locations/time zones.
• Fundamental understanding of networking and security and how to enforce security on production traffic.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers with clear expectations and career development.
• Define technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege access.
• Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization and TLS/mTLS enforcement, network segmentation, and egress controls.
• Make security capabilities easy to adopt through secure defaults, policy abstractions, migration tooling, and diagnostics.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts with testing and observability.
• Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production‑infrastructure teams to align priorities and deliver across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

Leadership

Coaching

Networking basics

Job description

Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient. As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms that other engineers can use confidently.

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, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
• Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least‑privilege network access.
• Lead development and adoption of identity‑based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network‑segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
• Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
• Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production‑infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.

Who You Are:

• You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
• You communicate clearly, build productive cross‑team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
• You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
• You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
• You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
• You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.

Datadog 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 (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.

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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:
$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.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog 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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