Datadog Engineering Manager at Datadog leads a team building secure service connectivity infrastructure for Zero Trust Networking. The role involves shaping technical direction, driving adoption, and ensuring platform reliability and security.
Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.
Qualification
You communicate clearly
Required
You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.
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.
