Manager ll, Engineering - Datadog Agent SDLC
$244k - $305k • Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA
Posted 4d ago
Job Location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
LLM Engineer
About the job
The Datadog Agent is our flagship open-source project and a critical part of how customers experience Datadog, with hundreds of engineers contributing annually across multiple languages and platforms. As Manager II, Engineering for Datadog Agent SDLC, you will lead the systems, tooling, and developer experience that enable engineers to build, test, secure, and ship software that runs in customer environments. You will guide the evolution of our software development lifecycle as AI coding tools reshape how software is developed, while strengthening our approach to software supply-chain security, build infrastructure, correctness, and performance. This is an opportunity to shape engineering practices for the Agent and establish patterns that can influence other open-source projects across Datadog.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering teams responsible for Agent developer experience, build systems, correctness, and performance benchmarking platforms.
- Own software supply-chain security for a public repository shipping into customer infrastructure, including provenance, signing, dependency and contribution review, and new risks from coding agents.
- Evolve the Agent software development lifecycle to support hundreds of contributors while improving developer velocity, reliability, and security.
- Drive AI coding enablement across the Agent ecosystem, adapting development workflows and infrastructure for engineers working with coding agents.
- Guide the evolution of build infrastructure for a complex, multi-language, multi-platform codebase, including adoption of modern build systems.
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and staff engineers across multiple geographies.
Requirements
- Engineering leader with experience owning software development lifecycle systems and developer infrastructure.
- First-hand experience with AI coding tools and flows, understanding opportunities and challenges.
- Curiosity about proving software correctness, including deterministic simulation testing, fault injection, property-based testing, and continuous performance benchmarking.
- Familiarity with complex multi-language development environments, CI/CD, remote build execution and caching; experience with Bazel or similar build systems is a plus.
- Experience leading multiple teams through technical and organizational change while balancing roadmap velocity, reliability, security, and long-term platform investments.
- Proven track record scaling exceptional engineering teams: hiring, coaching, performance management, and building appropriate team structures globally.
Benefits
- High income earning opportunities based on self performance
- New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Generous global benefits
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan