Senior Product Manager AAATelemetry Optimization

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

As a Product Manager for Telemetry Optimization you will build the control plane that helps customers decide what observability data to collect keep and recall and how to manage agents at scale. You will pair cost and risk controls with simple auditable experiences for administrators and service owners.

Youll work closely with Platform and SRE teams who face fast growing telemetry volumes configuration drift across large fleets and unpredictable bills that create blind spots during incidents. Your customers are central observability owners enterprise admins security and compliance partners and the service teams they support. Youll own and build guardrails for agent lifecycle policy pipelines routing and cost that do not break investigations.

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

What Youll Do

Own the strategy for a unified governance and fleet control plane that spans agent lifecycle configuration at scale upgrades and policy enforcement. Partner with SRE Platform Security Finance Product Support and GTM.
Define success metrics that tie governance to outcomes such as controlled ingest reduced cardinality faster investigations and predictable bills. Publish dashboards and reviews with stakeholders.
Ship a visual pipeline and policy experience for sampling filtering redaction enrichment routing and retention with simulation staged rollout and audit trails.
Introduce usage aware governance including utility scoring team level quotas and budgets caps and alerts that align cost with value.
Enable source side optimization including edge processing and pre-aggregation with measurable reduction targets and clear ROI.
Provide APIs and tooling so customers can integrate fleet and pipeline changes into CI or automation workflows including safe approvals.
Ensure secure auditable operations with role based access to fleet actions like configuration changes upgrades and troubleshooting. Establish least privilege defaults.
Support customers using Datadog Agents OTel collectors or Observability Pipelines. Promote standards pragmatically where they reduce friction.
Partner with Sales Solutions Marketing Finance Legal and Support on rollouts pricing inputs enablement and customer adoption.

Who You Are

6 years as a Product Manager in data platforms observability or adjacent infrastructure. Experience owning agent lifecycle and configuration at large scale.
Strong understanding of telemetry signals and pipelines. Hands on familiarity with Datadog Agent Fluent Bit Vector or similar.
Proven ability to balance the trade-offs between data utility (completeness freshness) security (PII/redaction) and cost in real-time streaming pipelines.
Experience delivering or operating rehydration tiering or archive patterns or adjacent storage lifecycle features.
Proven work on usage aware cost controls like quotas budgets or utility scoring and ability to partner with FinOps to prove ROI.
Comfortable with Kubernetes and large fleet operations including staged rollouts automation and incident safe changes.
Familiar with data protection in pipelines including PII obfuscation redaction tokenization and compliance workflows.
Excellent communicator who partners well with enterprise admins security and compliance leaders SREs and engineering teams and who writes crisp PRDs and migration playbooks.
Bonus: open source contributions or ecosystem experience with tools like OpenTelemetry (OTel) New Relic Cribl Edge Delta or Mezmo. Experience with CI integrations and major clouds.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That is okay. If you are passionate about technology and want to grow your experience we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & Growth:

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds
Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions
Free global Spring 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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

What Youll Do

Own the strategy for a unified governance and fleet control plane that spans agent lifecycle configuration at scale upgrades and policy enforcement. Partner with SRE Platform Security Finance Product Support and GTM.
Define success metrics that tie governance to outcomes such as controlled ingest reduced cardinality faster investigations and predictable bills. Publish dashboards and reviews with stakeholders.
Ship a visual pipeline and policy experience for sampling filtering redaction enrichment routing and retention with simulation staged rollout and audit trails.
Introduce usage aware governance including utility scoring team level quotas and budgets caps and alerts that align cost with value.
Enable source side optimization including edge processing and pre-aggregation with measurable reduction targets and clear ROI.
Provide APIs and tooling so customers can integrate fleet and pipeline changes into CI or automation workflows including safe approvals.
Ensure secure auditable operations with role based access to fleet actions like configuration changes upgrades and troubleshooting. Establish least privilege defaults.
Support customers using Datadog Agents OTel collectors or Observability Pipelines. Promote standards pragmatically where they reduce friction.
Partner with Sales Solutions Marketing Finance Legal and Support on rollouts pricing inputs enablement and customer adoption.

Who You Are

6 years as a Product Manager in data platforms observability or adjacent infrastructure. Experience owning agent lifecycle and configuration at large scale.
Strong understanding of telemetry signals and pipelines. Hands on familiarity with Datadog Agent Fluent Bit Vector or similar.
Proven ability to balance the trade-offs between data utility (completeness freshness) security (PII/redaction) and cost in real-time streaming pipelines.
Experience delivering or operating rehydration tiering or archive patterns or adjacent storage lifecycle features.
Proven work on usage aware cost controls like quotas budgets or utility scoring and ability to partner with FinOps to prove ROI.
Comfortable with Kubernetes and large fleet operations including staged rollouts automation and incident safe changes.
Familiar with data protection in pipelines including PII obfuscation redaction tokenization and compliance workflows.
Excellent communicator who partners well with enterprise admins security and compliance leaders SREs and engineering teams and who writes crisp PRDs and migration playbooks.
Bonus: open source contributions or ecosystem experience with tools like OpenTelemetry (OTel) New Relic Cribl Edge Delta or Mezmo. Experience with CI integrations and major clouds.

Benefits & Growth: