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Manager II, Engineering - Datadog Agent SDLC

Datadog· Engineering
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Boston, MA, New York, NY$244k - $305kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Manager II, Engineering for Datadog Agent SDLC leading the systems, tooling, and developer experience to enable engineers to build, test, secure, and ship software for Datadog Agent across multiple languages and platforms; guiding the evolution of the software development lifecycle with AI coding tools and focus on software supply-chain security, build infrastructure, correctness, and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the engineering teams responsible for the Agent developer experience, build systems, correctness, and performance benchmarking platforms
  • Own software supply-chain security for a public repository that ships into customer infrastructure - provenance, signing, dependency and contribution review, and new risks coding agents introduce
  • Evolve the Agent software development lifecycle to support hundreds of contributors while improving developer velocity, reliability, and security
  • Drive AI coding enablement across the Agent ecosystem, adapting development workflows and infrastructure as engineers increasingly work alongside coding agents
  • Guide the evolution of build infrastructure for a complex, multi-language, multi-platform codebase, including continued adoption and development of modern build systems
  • Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and staff engineers across multiple geographies

Qualifications

  • An engineering leader with experience owning software development lifecycle systems and developer infrastructure
  • First-hand experience with AI coding tools and flows, excited by opportunities and mindful of challenges in AI-assisted software development
  • Curious about proving software correctness: deterministic simulation testing, fault injection, property-based testing, continuous performance benchmarking
  • Familiar with complex multi-language development environments, CI/CD, remote build execution and caching; experience with Bazel or similar build systems is a plus
  • Experienced leading multiple teams through technical and organizational change while balancing roadmap velocity, reliability, security, and long-term platform investments
  • Proven track record scaling exceptional engineering teams: hiring, coaching, performance management, and building appropriate team structures globally

Skills

Required:Software development lifecycle (SDLC) systemsAI coding toolsSoftware supply-chain securityBuild infrastructureLeadership & people management

Benefits

  • High income earning opportunities based on self performance
  • New hire stock equity (RSU) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Sales training in MEDDIC and Command of the Message
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, opportunity to join our Community Guilds
  • Generous global benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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