Manager ll, Engineering - Datadog Agent SDLC
Boston · New York · USD 244,000-305,000 / year · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Boston · New York
- Salary
- USD 244,000-305,000 / year · OTE
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.
About the role
- 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 the engineering teams responsible for the Agent developer experience, build systems, correctness, and performance benchmarking platforms
- Own software supply-chain security for a public repository that ships into customer infrastructure - provenance, signing, dependency and contribution review, and the new risks coding agents introduce
- 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 as engineers increasingly work alongside coding agents
- Guide the evolution of build infrastructure for a complex, multi-language, multi-platform codebase, including the continued adoption and development of modern build systems
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and staff engineers across multiple geographies
Requirements
- An engineering leader with experience owning software development lifecycle systems and developer infrastructure
- First-hand experience with AI coding tools and flows, excited by the opportunities and mindful of challenges created by AI-assisted software development
- Curious about the art of proving software correct: deterministic simulation testing, fault injection, property-based testing, continuous performance benchmarking
- Familiar with complex multi-language development environments, CI/CD, remote build execution and caching
- Experienced leading multiple teams through technical and organizational change while balancing roadmap velocity, reliability, security, and long-term platform investments
- A proven track record scaling exceptional engineering teams: hiring, coaching, performance management, and building appropriate team structures globally
Preferred qualifications
- experience with Bazel or similar build systems is a plus
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
- A 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace
Skills
- Bazel
- CI/CD
