Engineering Manager II - APM DCS Platform Delivery

Datadog's APM Platform builds the foundations that let our dd-trace library engineers ship reliable, high-performance instrumentation across 15+ products used inside our customers' applications. As the Engineering Manager for our Developer Experience, Performance, and Release teams, your goals will be to help hundreds of engineers ship high-quality code faster and with confidence. You'll own the tooling and platforms that keep our development loop fast, prevent performance regressions before release, and gate customer-impacting issues through gradual rollouts and customer-simulation environments while continuously innovating. This is a high-leverage leadership role for someone who wants to grow their scope across multiple technical domains while making a measurable, company-wide impact on engineering productivity and product quality.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers across three teams.
• Set the vision and roadmap for developer productivity; drive our performance engineering practice and own the release experience.
• Partner with product, infrastructure, and internal CI teams across Datadog to understand how they build software and continuously increase the efficiency of our workflows.
• Scale and evolve fault‑tolerant, tier‑0 CI and CD systems to support growth into new and more complex environments.

Who You Are:

• Experienced people manager who invests in career growth, mentoring, and building healthy, high‑trust teams.
• Strong project‑delivery leader with a track record of roadmap planning and shipping in collaboration with partner teams.
• Skilled in system design, with the ability to set and raise the technical bar for reliable, high‑scale systems, challenging complexity and ensuring the team delivers highest value for the investment.
• Self‑propelled partner across many stakeholders, internal customers, platform providers, and sister teams.
• Bonus: experience with internal tooling or developer‑productivity teams, continuous integration/delivery systems, benchmarking, or AWS.

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.
• Inclusive company culture, access to Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
• Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.