Manager I, Engineering, Cloud FinOps

Datadog

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
55 days ago
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This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $175,375–$266,200 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $221k 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 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager I, Engineering, Cloud FinOps

As the Manager I, Engineering - Cloud FinOps, you will lead and grow a team of engineers building a platform that allocates cloud costs to specific products and customers. You will own the runtime pipeline, coverage onboarding, and cost-to-customer identity mapping, ensuring every dollar of cloud cost is placed against the correct entity with reproducible lineage. Your daily work involves owning publication contracts for Finance, managing metric contracts with platform teams, and partnering with Revenue Engineering on cost-to-revenue identity joins. You will utilize AI tooling like Claude Code and Cursor to increase team speed. The role requires expertise in data engineering, batch and pipeline systems, metering, usage-based billing, and financial data platforms to solve the technical problem of accurate, auditable cost reporting for month-end closes.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in New York?

Median $254488 from 41 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a team of engineers building a platform to allocate cloud costs to specific products and customers.
  • Own the publication contract with Finance to provide versioned metrics with reproducible history for closed periods.
  • Manage metric contracts with platform teams to shift cost facts to the teams that generate them.
  • Partner with Revenue Engineering to join cost data with revenue data for margin analysis.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the accuracy and coverage of product and customer cost data.
  • Reduce key-person risk by spreading ownership of runtime and compiler architecture across the engineering team.
  • Use AI tooling to increase the team's development speed and overall technical leverage.

What we're looking for

  • Experience managing data platform or data engineering teams building batch and pipeline systems judged on correctness and reproducibility.
  • Experience shipping versioned publications with effective dates, backfill, and reproducible history.
  • Experience holding delivery commitments with teams outside of your direct reporting line.
  • Domain experience in metering, usage-based billing, cloud cost, revenue data, or financial data platforms.
  • Ability to set contracts, negotiate boundaries, and drive a roadmap independently without a product manager.
  • Experience owning systems whose output is audited or closed by Finance (SOX scope, month-end close, revenue recognition) (preferred).
  • Experience building graph datasets or retrieval-grounded systems where every answer cites its source (preferred).

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