At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at massive scale—trillions of data points per day—enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving across Dev, Ops, and Security teams for tens of thousands of customers worldwide. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The Containers product group sits at the core of Datadog’s Infrastructure business and powers a significant portion of Datadog’s revenue. As modern infrastructure continues to shift toward Kubernetes and containerized workloads, this group is responsible for helping customers operate, secure, and optimize their most critical production environments—reliably and at scale.
In this role, you will define the long-term vision and strategy for Datadog’s Containers & Live processes products, spanning Kubernetes observability, container runtime visibility, workload health, and the operational workflows that infrastructure teams rely on every day. You will lead a team of product managers building foundational platform capabilities used by thousands of customers running mission-critical workloads in production.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
**What You’ll Do: **
- Lead and grow a team of product managers responsible for Datadog’s Containers and Kubernetes product portfolio.
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for containers observability, ensuring the products continue to drive meaningful customer value and significant Infra revenue.
- Define and drive the next generation of Containers products by applying AI and machine learning to help customers understand, operate, and troubleshoot complex containerized systems automatically.
- Co-define and build the next generation of containers and Kubernetes capabilities as part of the Datadog unified platform, deeply integrated with metrics, logs, traces, security, and CI/CD workflows.
- Partner closely with engineering leadership to deliver platform-level capabilities that scale across products and customers.
- Collaborate with other Datadog product teams (APM, Logs, Network, Cloud, Security, Serverless) to improve cross-product workflows and help customers troubleshoot faster and operate with confidence.
- Work with go-to-market, sales, customer success, and support teams to shape positioning, packaging, and launch strategies for new Containers features.
- Represent Containers product strategy internally and externally, helping align leadership around priorities and long-term bets.
**Who You Are: **
- Experience: 8+ years of B2B SaaS product management experience, with 2+ years managing and developing a team of product managers.
- Domain Expertise: Deep familiarity with containers and Kubernetes ecosystems, including how modern infrastructure teams build, deploy, and operate production workloads.
- Leadership: Proven ability to hire, mentor, and scale high-performing product teams while setting clear direction and expectations.
- Customer Partnership: Experience working closely with enterprise customers operating complex, large-scale infrastructure.
- Technical Credibility: Strong technical background that enables effective collaboration with senior engineers and earns trust with highly technical customers. AI Product Fluency: Experience incorporating AI or machine learning into customer-facing products, or strong intuition for where AI can meaningfully improve workflows, decision-making, and automation for infrastructure teams.
- Data & Systems Thinking: Comfort working with large-scale data systems and understanding how telemetry, signals, and models can be combined to generate actionable insights.
- Platform Thinking: Experience building foundational platform products or shared infrastructure that supports multiple use cases and teams.
- Product Craft: Strong track record of shipping impactful products by working closely with design and engineering, balancing usability, performance, scale, and trust.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to lead complex, cross-team initiatives and align stakeholders across product, engineering, data, and go-to-market functions.
_Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply. _
Benefits & Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global Spring 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.
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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:
$234,000—$300,000 USD
**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.
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