Engineering Manager I - AI Platform - Evaluation & Annotation

The AI platform is responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog. Our mission is to provide tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to conduct large-scale training and inference with ease. We support products such as Bits AI, LLMObs and all our AI research.

As an engineering manager for the Evaluation & Annotation team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: AI model evaluation both offline and online, designing tooling and processes around human annotation, and establishing the standard around synthetics and AI generated datasets.

You’ll work closely with sister teams in the AI platform organization ensuring a seamless AI development cycle. You’ll also partner with the Applied AI org and with Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up.

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:

• Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team, directly managing 4-6 engineers
• Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and data pipelines to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands‑on work: code reviews, design reviews and some coding

Who You Are:

• A software engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
• Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high‑performing teams
• Interested in working on an early‑stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• Track record of delivering high‑quality software on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners
• Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineering and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands‑on leader

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 purc