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Manager I, Engineering - Language Platform

Datadog· Engineering
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LisbonFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role focused on leading and growing a team of library engineers to advance Datadog’s SDKs for APM across multiple languages, with emphasis on architecture, open-source tooling, and collaboration with product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers — coaching, giving direct feedback, and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders owning outcomes
  • Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews
  • Collaborate with Product teams to reshape and grow platform capabilities to enable product teams
  • Define and deliver industry leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation
  • Stay technically close to the work — apply strong technical judgment, set a high standard for quality, contribute code where it matters most, and keep quality and architecture high
  • Build strong relationships and drive alignment across the language teams and product, backend
  • Shape team identity and culture

Qualifications

  • An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
  • A strong and empathetic leader with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams to deliver high quality software
  • An ability pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details
  • Significant programming experience in one or more of: Go, C, Rust

Skills

Required:Team leadershipGo
Nice to have:CRust

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
  • 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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