Manager Ii, Engineering - Bring Your Own Cloud

Datadog Datadog · Enterprise · New York, NY · Leadership

Manager II, Engineering role focused on leading teams to build, scale, and operate a new "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) product initiative at Datadog, expanding into logs, metrics, and traces. The role involves product design, roadmap definition, execution, and operational reliability, with a requirement to use and validate AI coding tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and develop the engineering teams delivering BYOC
  2. Partner with PM to define roadmap, release product features and enable field teams
  3. Own execution, delivery and x-functional coordination
  4. Own on-call rotations, incident response and service reliability

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading product engineering teams on a scaled, fast-paced environment
  • Experience with distributed systems design and operation at scale
  • Drive to action and customer/product centric mindset
  • Great communication skills - effective from eng/teams to execs/customers
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP), orchestration (Kubernetes), and storage (RDS, S3)
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

Nice to have

  • You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output