Manager I, Engineering - Governance

The Governance Console is a cornerstone of Datadog’s effort to help customers manage their observability usage, cost, and best practices at scale.

We are building a platform that surfaces actionable insights and controls to ensure customers can govern their Datadog usage effectively—across teams, organizations, and products.

As the Engineering Manager for this initiative, you'll lead a growing team focused on building highly visible and technically challenging systems that span telemetry pipelines, configuration interfaces, tagging and access governance, and multi-org coordination.

You'll work closely with product, design, and other engineering groups to define the vision, iterate on prototypes, and scale the console to serve Datadog’s largest customers.

_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:

• Drive the design of a flexible governance system that lets customers define policies, detect misconfigurations, and take action—turning observability from reactive monitoring into proactive management
• Collaborate with PM, design, and other engineering teams to define the roadmap and execute on delivery
• Tackle complex engineering problems that span multiple teams
• Work with enterprise customers to better understand their governance needs, and turn their pain points into improved capabilities

Who You Are:

• You are an experienced engineering manager who has experience leading backend of full-stack engineering teams
• You have built and scaled distributed systems, and you enjoy solving complex problems that impact customers
• You have a track record of growing and mentoring engineers at different stages in their careers
• You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, building roadmaps, and aligning cross-functional teams
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

_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.

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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:

$187,000—$240,000 USD