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Director, Engineering - Digital Experience Monitoring

Datadog· Engineering
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Hybrid (Paris)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Director, Engineering leading the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) group engineering efforts in Paris, managing 50-60 engineers through Engineering Managers, shaping roadmaps, and driving AI adoption across engineering tooling, workflows, and product features.

Responsibilities

  • Own engineering for one or more DEM product areas with scope calibrated to your background and strengths
  • Manage 50-60 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 DEM, APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science
  • Build and retain engineering talent in Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation

Qualifications

  • You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors
  • You integrate AI deeply into how you lead and how your teams build
  • You have a track record of shaping product decisions, not just executing against a spec
  • You've worked with large-scale, event-driven or data-intensive backend systems — ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data at scale
  • You bring full-stack or frontend-adjacent experience; DEM is an SDK-heavy, browser- and mobile-facing product group
  • You're comfortable operating in English in a cross-Atlantic org, and are based in Paris or open to relocating there (French is not required)

Skills

Required:Engineering ManagementAI integration in engineering leadershipProduct strategy and decision makingBackend systems & data scale
Nice to have:Frontend / full-stack experience

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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