About the company
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered developer tools, owning hiring, ramp-up, and career development.
- Own the technical direction for the product we’re shipping, partnering closely with staff-level engineers on architecture decisions.
- Drive down developer cycle time while raising the bar on correctness - making AI-assisted development both faster and more trustworthy.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape the roadmap for an early-stage product, translating ambiguous problems into shippable scope.
- Establish the execution rhythm for your team: planning, delivery, quality, and operational ownership of the services you build.
Requirements
- You’re actively shipping code with AI agents in production.
- You thrive in early-stage environments where the roadmap shifts and the right answer isn't known yet.
- You have a genuine point of view on AI coding tools - where they help today, where they fall short, and what it would take to close the gap.
- You have strong technical depth in full-stack development (TypeScript/React and systems-level work) and stay close enough to the code to earn the trust of senior engineers.
- You've built developer-facing products or tooling where speed, reliability, and developer experience were hard requirements.
Conditions
- 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.