Manager I, Engineering, Change Experience Platform

Datadog

Hybrid

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$187,000–$240,000 / yr
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This role $214k
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This role pays more than 56% of similar roles. Most pay $170,000–$244,525 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

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About Datadog

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.

Datadog currently has 130 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,000–$240,000 across 65 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager I, Engineering, Change Experience Platform

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As a Manager I in Engineering at Datadog’s Change Experience Platform team, you will lead and grow a small team of engineers responsible for internal platforms and product experiences used across the engineering organization. Your role involves setting technical direction for systems that include UI frameworks, CLI tooling, notification platforms, subscription models, and infrastructure governance workflows while ensuring usability, reliability, documentation, adoption, and supportability. You will collaborate closely with various teams to build reusable interfaces and safety mechanisms, balancing framework ownership, platform reliability, internal customer needs, and long-term technical direction. The ideal candidate has experience managing engineers on internal platforms, strong technical judgment in distributed systems, and fluency in backend languages like Go or Python, as well as familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL or Cassandra. Additionally, you should have frontend or product-surface expertise to guide teams building user-facing engineering experiences.

Skills

Python Go Java PostgreSQL Cassandra Redis ElasticSearch Docker Kubernetes CI/CD AWS Grafana Prometheus GitLab AI Frontend Backend DevOps

What you'll do

  • Lead a team of engineers responsible for internal platforms and product experiences used across engineering.
  • Define standards for usability, reliability, documentation, adoption, and supportability of developer-facing platforms.
  • Set technical direction for UI frameworks, CLI tooling, notification systems, subscription models, and governance workflows.
  • Write code or troubleshoot issues to unblock the team when necessary.
  • Cultivate a diverse skill-set within the engineering team through performance management and career development.
  • Drive relationships with major stakeholders to prioritize impact towards the team’s goals.

What we're looking for

  • Experience managing engineers on internal platforms and developer tooling.
  • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, APIs, data models, and workflows.
  • Understanding of internal platform success through adoption, trust, reliability, and user experience.
  • Direct experience working with engineering customers to improve their workflows.
  • Significant backend language expertise (Go, Python, Java) and knowledge of various data stores.
  • Fluency in frontend or product-surface design for guiding UI and workflow tool development.

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