Product Manager II - Application Performance Monitoring

Datadog

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
—
Salary
$155,000–$195,000 / yr
Posted
5 days ago

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $185k
This role $175k
$137k most similar roles pay here $236k

This role pays less than 61% of similar roles. Most pay $157,009–$213,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $175k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Datadog

At a glance

TL;DR · Product Manager II - Application Performance Monitoring

Role Posting Log in to save

As a Product Manager II for APM at Datadog, you will collaborate with world-class engineers and designers to develop advanced capabilities that scale to thousands of customers, making sophisticated observability workflows accessible to all levels of expertise. Your responsibilities include leading conversations with strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, defining next-generation features such as agentic onboarding and AI-driven troubleshooting, and ensuring seamless cross-product experiences. You will need 3-5 years of product management experience in developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure products, along with a background in modern software development and distributed systems. Expertise in production-level AI projects involving ML-driven insights is crucial, alongside strong communication skills and the ability to thrive in fast-paced environments. The role involves working on high-scale platforms that enable seamless collaboration among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies.

Skills

APM AI ML Distributed_Tracing Performance_Analysis Microservices CI/CD Python Go JavaScript Cloud_Services AWS Kubernetes PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL React Node.js Git Jira Confluence

What you'll do

  • Develop deep understanding of APM customers' challenges and workflows.
  • Lead conversations with design partners to guide solutions from prototypes to GA.
  • Define next-generation APM features focusing on AI-driven troubleshooting.
  • Make complex performance data understandable for engineers new to observability.
  • Drive cross-functional discussions to deliver seamless investigative workflows.
  • Partner with marketing, sales, and support to define Go-To-Market strategies.

What we're looking for

  • 3-5 years of experience as a Product Manager in SaaS or infrastructure products.
  • Experience leading AI projects from conception to launch, including ML-driven insights and automation.
  • Prior engineering background or deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems.
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting product decisions to cross-functional teams.
  • Customer-focused approach with high attention to detail and commitment to quality standards.
  • Thrives in fast-paced environments, adept at scaling products and building new ones from scratch.
  • Familiarity with cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices or profiling technologies.

Related searches

More Product Manager II jobs All jobs at Datadog

More like this

Similar roles

Technical Escalations Engineer 2, APM - Java/Proxy/C++

Datadog

Mexico City, Mexico 15 days ago
APM Distributed tracing Service dependencies Instrumentation behavior Java Proxy Cpp Microservices Monoliths Event-driven architectures Zendesk Jira Confluence CI/CD Python PostgreSQL AWS Kubernetes
Hybrid
Save

Product Manager II

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 12 days ago $102,100–$202,200
Azure Microsoft Fabric Azure SQL DB Azure Cosmos DB Azure PostgreSQL Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Service Bus Azure Event Grid Power BI SQL Kusto DevOps CI/CD LLM APIs Azure OpenAI
Save

Sr Product Manager, Performance measurement

Samsung Electronics

Remote (Mountain View, CA) 50 days ago
Python JavaScript SQL Kubernetes AWS Google Cloud Platform Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL BigQuery Snowflake Prometheus Grafana EventBridge Lambda Serverless API Gateway RESTful APIs GraphQL
Remote
Save

Software Product Manager

HP Inc.

Austin, TX +1 11 days ago $110,300–$159,950
Agile Methodology JIRA Kanban Principles Scrum (Software Development) Continuous Improvement Process Milestones (Project Management) Sprint Planning Risk Management Process Improvement New Product Development Automation Change Management Product Management Project Engineering Project Management Project Planning Project Schedules
Save

Product Manager 2, Experimentation, Observability & Platform Infrastructure

Nordstrom

Seattle, WA 31 days ago $121,500–$188,500
Optimizely Quantum_Metric A/B_testing Feature_flag_architecture Digital_experience_analytics CI/CD KPI_definition Frontend_platform_engineering Agile_ceremonies Vendor_management Technical_requirements User_stories Acceptance_criteria Experimentation_tooling Product_analytics_tooling
Hybrid
Save