Manager, Engineering - Security Libraries

Datadog

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Posted: 37 days ago
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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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Manager I, Engineering - Security Libraries joins the Security Libraries team to lead a polyglot group of engineers responsible for customer-side integrations for run-time security products. This role involves managing a team of four to eight engineers, overseeing product roadmaps, and ensuring the operational health of code running in production at massive scale. You will build and maintain security capabilities across seven open-source language libraries—including .NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and PHP—alongside HTTP proxy integrations like Envoy, NGINX, and HAProxy. The work focuses on solving critical problems in exploit prevention (RASP), WAF detections, API Security, code security (IAST and SCA), and AI-assisted onboarding. You will balance people leadership with technical judgment to drive the pace of new features while maintaining high architectural standards across these diverse integrations.

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Skills

.NET Java Go Node.js Python Ruby PHP Envoy NGINX HAProxy RASP WAF IAST SCA SDKs APM Observability

What you'll do

Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4-8 engineers while empowering senior individual contributors as technical leaders.
Manage team delivery by overseeing planning, milestones, code reviews, and the on-call rotation.
Define product direction in collaboration with Product Management to balance priorities across multiple security products.
Maintain high technical standards by providing judgment on architecture and contributing code where necessary.
Drive alignment across various internal teams including language teams, backend partners, and frontend partners.
Oversee the operational health of production code running at a massive scale.
Shape team identity and culture while taking accountability for project outcomes and problems.

What we're looking for

Experience managing a team of engineers including coaching, providing feedback, and overseeing delivery.
A senior software engineering background with strong technical judgment.
Experience building libraries, SDKs, developer tooling, or systems/run-time software.
Pragmatic product-engineering experience working with Product Managers to weigh technical trade-offs against customer impact.
Strong cross-team communication skills to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and partners.
Experience in application security (WAF, RASP, IAST/SCA) or adjacent observability/APM fields is preferred.
Hands-on experience with at least one of the supported languages (.NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP) is preferred.
Experience leading distributed or multi-language teams across various stakeholders is preferred.