Manager II, Engineering - AI Platform Training, Serving and Storage

Manager II, Engineering - AI Platform Training, Serving and Storage

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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.

You’ll join a new and fast‑growing team that is critical to the future of Datadog. You will support building and scaling the team, help define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. You will manage other managers and help define the future structure of our organization, participating in the recruitment of future managers and ICs. You’ll work closely with partner teams in the AI platform organization to ensure a seamless AI development cycle and partner with the Applied AI org, product engineering teams, and Datadog infrastructure & tooling teams to build out systems from the ground up.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a fast‑growing organization of around 20 people across 2 teams soon to be 3.
• Define the roadmap for your scope and work with ICs and managers to establish the technical direction.
• Collaborate with the engineering team and product manager to refine the roadmap.
• Create a strong organizational culture centered around our engineering standards and a customer‑focused approach.
• Support the whole lifecycle of AI development, including model training, serving, deployment and monitoring.

Who You Are:

• You’ve led teams that built 0 to 1 ML/AI platforms, emphasizing open‑source tooling (e.g., Ray / AnyScale) rather than pure out‑of‑the‑box solutions.
• You’re an experienced engineer and team player with strong technical skills to influence the direction of your teams.
• You’re a people leader with strong interpersonal skills, having built and led high‑performing software engineering teams, including managing managers.
• You’re interested in working on an early‑stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle. You bring a strong bias for delivery and can make an impact through ambiguity.
• You have a track record of delivering high‑quality software on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• In‑departmental 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 and our internal panel discussions.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.

About Datadog:

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. We champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people‑first community that solves tough problems, takes smart risks, and celebrates one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the Datadog Learning Center.

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 protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development