Director, Engineering, Cloud Observability
Datadog
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Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.
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Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.
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Director, Engineering - Digital Experience Monitoring joins the Digital Experience Monitoring group to oversee product areas including Real User Monitoring, Product Analytics, Synthetic Monitoring, Feature Flags, and Datadog Studio. In this manager-of-managers role, you will lead 50-60 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers while shaping the product roadmap alongside leadership. You will drive AI adoption across engineering tooling, workflows, and features while navigating cross-team dependencies with APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science teams. The ideal candidate possesses experience with large-scale, event-driven or data-intensive backend systems such as ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, and time-series data. Because the product group is SDK-heavy and faces browser and mobile environments, you must possess full-stack or frontend-adjacent experience. You will be responsible for building talent, mentoring managers, and integrating AI-first thinking into core engineering practices.
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Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.
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