Datadog · 7 hours ago
Manager II, Engineering - Runtime
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$234K/yr - $300K/yrDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on cloud monitoring and digital transformation. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead runtime-focused teams responsible for profiling libraries and runtime integrations, ensuring high technical quality and innovation in observability.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead multiple runtime teams and a group of staff engineers building:
Language specific profiling libraries (Java, Go, Python and more)
EBPF profiling capabilities
Crash tracking and runtime instrumentation features
Partner closely with product management, design, our design partners and other APM teams to set and follow up on roadmaps and help prioritize initiatives
Mentor and grow engineering managers and staff engineers, building healthy, high-performing teams distributed across multiple geographies
Ensure that our runtime integrations are performant, stable and deliver high-value insights to customers at scale
Qualification
Required
Proven track record scaling engineering teams: hiring, coaching, succession planning, and building distributed team structures
Experience managing managers and/or staff engineers in deeply technical domains
Strong technical credibility in runtime or systems engineering, ideally with the JVM, Go, CPython, Rust, LLVM, or similar
Excellent communicator (English), able to represent team strategy to executives, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders and communities
Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space
Customer empathy and product intuition: you can translate enterprise developer pain points into actionable runtime improvements
Preferred
Open source leadership or contributions to major runtime projects (OpenJDK, Go, CPython, Rust, or similar)
Experience leading teams building developer/runtime tooling such as profilers, debuggers or other runtime visibility
Experience managing teams across time zones
Exposure to machine learning observability or performance engineering at scale
Thought leadership in observability: speaking at conferences, writing articles or influencing standards
Benefits
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
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
Founded in 2010
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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