Manager I, Engineering Core Analytics

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

You will lead a small hands-on engineering team building the secure scalable Core Analytics Data Access Platform that accelerates Datadogs Applied AI and analytics capabilities. The team owns the Data Access Platform a unified interface that lets AI and analytics teams discover and self-serve production-ready datasets while abstracting underlying systems and embedding required legal and compliance this role youll own technical direction contribute to design and code and partner closely with Applied AI Product Analytics and internal platform teams to provide reliable datasets and APIs for model training and analysis. This role balances day-to-day engineering leadership with long-term platform planning and can evolve to EM2 as the platform grows in scope and impact.

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:

Lead a Hands-On Engineering Team: Manage mentor and grow a small team of 24 data engineers (mix of senior and junior) across Paris and NYC fostering technical excellence and career development.
Own Technical Direction and Delivery: Define architecture engineering priorities and the team roadmap for the Data Access Platform driving implementation of scalable secure data pipelines and platform services.
Contribute to Design and Code: Spend substantial time coding reviewing and shipping critical platform components to ensure performance reliability and operational excellence.
Partner with Internal Stakeholders: Work closely with Applied AI Internal Product Analytics product managers and platform teams to define data contracts APIs SLAs observability and curated analytical datasets.
Ensure Data Security Governance and Reliability: Implement access controls lineage monitoring and compliance guardrails to support safe model training and repeatable analytics workflows.
Plan and Scale the Platform: Evolve storage processing frameworks API patterns and operational practices to enable broader adoption and prepare the platform for increased scope and usage.

Who You Are:

Hands-On Engineering Manager who enjoys managing a small team while remaining an active contributor to design and code.
Experienced in Data Pipelines and At-Scale Data Engineering with practical experience building ETL/ELT streaming and/or batch workflows and production data servicing layers.
Practical Knowledge of Our Core Stack: production experience with AWS Spark and Iceberg (or equivalent table formats and compute frameworks).
Collaborative Partner to Data Scientists and Analysts: track record working with applied ML teams data scientists and analytics consumers to operationalize data for model training and analysis.
Operationally Strong: experience defining SLAs building observability running incident response and enforcing data governance in production systems.
Pragmatic Architect and Deliverer: able to balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture and make tradeoffs that advance product and platform goals.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your experience 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.

Required Experience:

Manager

What Youll Do:

Lead a Hands-On Engineering Team: Manage mentor and grow a small team of 24 data engineers (mix of senior and junior) across Paris and NYC fostering technical excellence and career development.
Own Technical Direction and Delivery: Define architecture engineering priorities and the team roadmap for the Data Access Platform driving implementation of scalable secure data pipelines and platform services.
Contribute to Design and Code: Spend substantial time coding reviewing and shipping critical platform components to ensure performance reliability and operational excellence.
Partner with Internal Stakeholders: Work closely with Applied AI Internal Product Analytics product managers and platform teams to define data contracts APIs SLAs observability and curated analytical datasets.
Ensure Data Security Governance and Reliability: Implement access controls lineage monitoring and compliance guardrails to support safe model training and repeatable analytics workflows.
Plan and Scale the Platform: Evolve storage processing frameworks API patterns and operational practices to enable broader adoption and prepare the platform for increased scope and usage.

Who You Are:

Hands-On Engineering Manager who enjoys managing a small team while remaining an active contributor to design and code.
Experienced in Data Pipelines and At-Scale Data Engineering with practical experience building ETL/ELT streaming and/or batch workflows and production data servicing layers.
Practical Knowledge of Our Core Stack: production experience with AWS Spark and Iceberg (or equivalent table formats and compute frameworks).
Collaborative Partner to Data Scientists and Analysts: track record working with applied ML teams data scientists and analytics consumers to operationalize data for model training and analysis.
Operationally Strong: experience defining SLAs building observability running incident response and enforcing data governance in production systems.
Pragmatic Architect and Deliverer: able to balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture and make tradeoffs that advance product and platform goals.

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