Director, Engineering Cloud Observability

Datadogs Cloud Observability group is one of the core data retrieval and processing groups powering our foundational product Infrastructure Monitoring. The groups scope includes integration with all major hyperscalers (AWS Azure GCP OCI) as well as both regional and GPU-specific cloud providers. As Director you will own engineering for all clouds generating more than 10 million metric points per second managing 40 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers. Youll partner with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap not just execute against it managing the growth of one of Datadogs foundational teams.

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 Youll Do:

• Own engineering for all of Cloud Observability

• Manage 40 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role

• Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it push back on iterate on and help author the strategy for your area

• Drive AI adoption across the engineering org from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices

• Navigate cross-team dependencies across the Agent Telemetry Onboarding Integrations Action Platform and Infrastructure Monitoring.

• Build and retain engineering talent in NYC Boston and Paris mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness and participate in the on-call rotation

Who You Are:

• You have directly managed Engineering Managers not just individual contributors

• You have deep experience with one or more cloud providers ideally with experience operating large-scale systems in the cloud.

• You have a solid understanding of cloud economics as well as how to balance performance and cost in cloud computing environments.

• You integrate AI deeply into how you lead and how your teams build treating AI-first thinking as core engineering practice rather than a feature bolted onto the product

• You have a track record of shaping product decisions not just executing against a spec

• You have worked with large-scale event-driven or data-intensive backend systems ingestion pipelines high-throughput APIs or time-series/event data at scale

• You are comfortable operating in English in a cross-Atlantic org and are based in New York Boston or Paris.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre 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.

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