# Manager I, Engineering - Cloud FinOps

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Data Engineering, Data Platforms, Batch Systems, Pipeline Systems, Cloud Cost Management, Usage-Based Billing, Financial Data, Backfilling, Data Lineage, Metric Contracts, Graph Datasets, Claude Code, Cursor
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Engineering manager leading a data platform team that allocates cloud costs to products and customers. The role requires experience with reproducible batch pipelines, versioned financial metrics, cross-functional delivery, and cloud cost, billing, revenue, or financial data systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team building Datadog’s cloud cost allocation platform for products and customers.
- Set operating rhythms across runtime and release, coverage onboarding, identity, and cost mapping.
- Own Finance’s publication contract, including versioned metrics, effective dates, backfills, and reproducible history for replayable closed periods.
- Define metric contracts with platform teams so cost facts are produced by the teams generating the cost.
- Partner with Revenue Engineering on cost-to-revenue identity joins for product- and customer-level margins.
- Improve product and customer cost coverage and accuracy while managing commitments with cross-functional teams.
- Distribute ownership of runtime and compiler architecture to reduce key-person risk.
- Use AI tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to improve team productivity.

## Requirements
- Experience managing data platform or data engineering teams building batch and pipeline systems focused on correctness and reproducibility.
- Experience shipping versioned publications with effective dates, backfills, and reproducible history.
- Experience owning delivery commitments involving teams outside the reporting line.
- Domain experience in metering, usage-based billing, cloud cost, revenue data, or financial data platforms.
- Ability to define contracts, negotiate boundaries, and drive roadmaps independently.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with audited or Finance-closed systems, including SOX scope, month-end close, or revenue recognition.
- Experience with graph datasets.
- Experience building retrieval-grounded systems with source citations and appropriate model trust boundaries.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated annual salary: **$200,000–$250,000 USD**
- New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
- Professional development, product training, and career pathing.
- Mentor and buddy programs.
- Mental health benefits and comprehensive healthcare, dental, parental planning, retirement, paid time off, fitness reimbursement, and employee stock purchase benefits.

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