Manager I, Engineering - Source Code Integration

Overview

Source Code Integration enables Product teams at Datadog to develop features that leverage customers’ source code. The team owns all platform services, infrastructure and integrations required to access and synchronize customer repositories securely, reliably and efficiently.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and cultivate a team of engineers of diverse experience levels, providing performance management and career development.
• Lead technical and strategic discussions to understand challenges and opportunities faced by the team and stakeholders.
• Own and drive relationships with product teams and major stakeholders, balancing competing requests with long‑term investments and prioritizing impact across the platform.
• Run a lightweight process to pace and track work, supporting progressive delivery of high‑quality work through demos and frequent iteration.
• Stay in touch with your team’s systems and roll up your sleeves when needed to unblock the team by writing code or troubleshooting issues.
• Support both internal and external customers in resolving their issues and find systematic solutions that elevate the platform and integration experience.

What We’re Looking For

• A good collaborator, enabler, and natural leader who puts people first.
• A backend engineer at heart, with experience building robust systems composed of multiple services, data streams and stores operating at scale.
• Significant experience with major backend technologies (Go, Python, or Java), PostgreSQL, Kafka, event‑driven architecture and/or distributed systems.
• Experience running platform services, comfortable making trade‑offs and balancing short‑term impact with long‑term sustainability. Proven ability to work closely with product and internal teams to deliver solutions at scale.
• Passion to work in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment providing leadership and direction for a highly technical team.
• Positivity and proactivity towards AI, including experience using agentic tools for development and analysis.
• We welcome applicants who are passionate about technology and want to grow their skills; not all listed qualifications must be met at day one.

Benefits and Growth

• High income earning opportunities based on individual performance.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking.
• An inclusive company culture and employee resource groups.
• Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions.
• Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.
• Giving programs.

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.