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Manager I, Engineering - Cloud FinOps

Datadog· Engineering
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New York, NY$192k - $240kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager for the Cloud FinOps team responsible for cost-to-curn, publication contracts, and cost-to-customer identity mapping to allocate Datadog's cloud cost to products and customers, with a focus on reproducibility, coverage onboarding, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of engineers building the platform that allocates Datadog's cloud cost to products and customers, setting the operating rhythm across runtime and release, coverage onboarding, and identity and mapping.
  • Own the publication contract with Finance: versioned metrics with effective dates, backfill, and reproducible history, so any closed period can be replayed on demand and trusted for close.
  • Own the metric contracts with platform teams across Engineering, shifting cost facts to the teams that generate the cost so coverage growth stops scaling linearly with your headcount.
  • Partner with Revenue Engineering on the cost-to-revenue identity join that turns cost data into margin per product and per customer.
  • Drive continuous improvement in product and customer cost coverage and accuracy, and hold delivery commitments with teams that don't report to you.
  • Reduce key-person risk on runtime and compiler architecture by spreading ownership across the team, and use AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, and similar) to raise the team's speed and leverage.

Qualifications

  • An engineering leader with experience managing data platform or data engineering teams building batch and pipeline systems judged on correctness and reproducibility.
  • Shipped versioned publication with effective dates, backfill, and reproducible history.
  • Held a delivery commitment with a team outside your reporting line, and can describe what happened the first time a contract was missed.
  • Domain experience in metering, usage-based billing, cloud cost, revenue data, or financial data platforms.
  • Operate without a product manager in the loop on the external half of the job: you set the contracts, negotiate the boundaries, and drive the roadmap yourself.
  • Experience with systems whose output is audited or closed by Finance (SOX scope, month-end close, revenue recognition); graph datasets or retrieval-grounded systems where every answer cites its source.

Skills

Required:Team leadership and engineering managementData platform / data engineeringPublication contracts with finance

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
  • Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds
  • Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, discounted employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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