Manager I, Engineering - Reference Tables

Reference Tables empower customers to bring external data into Datadog, enabling them to enrich and filter their observability data using their own referential sources-without ever leaving the platform.

The team owns its own UI and public-facing API, and collaborates closely with other product teams to support customer-facing features. As a platform, Reference Tables power critical use cases such as log enrichment, threat intelligence, and several upcoming strategic products.

We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to guide a growing team of engineers through an ambitious product and technical roadmap. This high-impact role will play a key part in shaping product direction, design, and engineering decisions.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do:

• Lead a team of engineers, ensuring effective project execution
• Partner with product managers and staff engineers to define and drive technical direction
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to shape the organization's technical roadmap
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices, ensuring consistency and quality
• Mentor and coach engineers, supporting their career growth and development
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative team culture

Who You Are:

• Technically adept, with a strong foundation in large-scale distributed systems and/or customer-facing product development. You can dive deep into technical details in code/designs when needed
• A problem solver at heart, eager to take on complex technical challenges with confidence and experience
• An engineering leader, skilled in prioritization, escalation, and clear communication-turning chaos into structured, manageable projects for ICs
• Experienced in mission-critical systems with high-stakes operations, having managed or participated in supporting infrastructure that demands high reliability & rapid incident response (via 24x7 rotation)
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

To conform to US export control regulations, candidates should be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.