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Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Training & Serving

Datadog· Engineering
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Parisfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering manager for the Training & Serving team within the AI Platform, focusing on distributed training of foundation models, serving at scale, and UX design, with a mission to build and scale the AI infrastructure across Datadog.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers
  • Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap
  • Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage, infrastructure and data pipelines to our needs
  • Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
  • Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding

Qualifications

  • Previous experience (1+ years) leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
  • Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
  • Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
  • Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
  • You build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and science, and skillfully coordinate among multiple stakeholders
  • You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and making decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
  • You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
  • Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Skills

Required:leadershipbackend developmentdistributed trainingsystem design

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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