Manager I, Engineering - Observability Pipelines

Datadog · New York, New York, USA · Engineering

Posted 2026-11-11

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Observability Pipelines (OP) is Datadog's on-premise, vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline product. As an Engineering Manager on the team, you'll own people management and engineering execution for one of OP's core missions, spanning areas like intelligence (a pipeline that decides on its own where every piece of data goes, and why), integrations (ingesting from and routing to the many source and destination systems customers rely on), streaming insights, cost control, or pipeline capabilities, reliability and scalability. You'll partner directly with Product to help shape the roadmap, and work closely with your peer EMs and senior ICs to define how OP operates and grows. This is an opportunity to build your management craft while having real influence over the technical direction of a fast-growing product area.

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:

Own people management and engineering execution for a team of 5 engineers

Establish a strong operating rhythm for the team, and drive high standards for on-call rotations and incident response, reliability and release quality

Partner closely with Product Management on the roadmap, balancing product priorities with technical realities

Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers on your team

Who You Are:

Experienced managing engineers directly, comfortable owning a team’s operating rhythm end-to-end, from planning through execution and stakeholder communication to incident and on-call ownership

Have a technical background in one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, data infrastructure, systems programming or high-throughput data plane environments

Strong product sensibility, and a track record for shipping. You enjoy working with Product on strategy and execution

Preferred Experience:

Experience with high-performance or Rust-based data pipeline systems

Experience with on-premise or customer-installed software concepts

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.

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:

$192,000—$240,000 USD

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