Engineering Manager, Language Platform

About the role

Datadog is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead its Language Platform, which covers the SDKs for its Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product across 9 supported languages. The role is responsible for delivering open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation with strong performance and a great developer experience, while growing the team's capacity.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers, including senior individual contributors acting as technical leaders
• Own team delivery and productivity through planning, milestones and reviews
• Work with Product teams to reshape and grow platform capabilities and define and deliver open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation
• Stay technically close to the work, set a high standard of quality, contribute code where it matters and keep architecture high
• Build relationships across language teams and product and backend, and shape team identity and culture

Required profile

• An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
• A strong, empathetic leader able to build high-performing teams
• Ability to move between high-level product narratives and detailed technical implementation

Required skills

• Significant programming experience in Go, C or Rust
• Bonus: systems programming, observability tooling, client-side software shipping, or Go runtime expertise

What we offer

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and an employee stock purchase plan
• Professional development, product training and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Hybrid workplace