# Director, Engineering

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Boston, MA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $296k – $370k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** cloud providers, AWS, Azure, GCP, large-scale systems, cloud economics, ai integration, event-driven systems, data-intensive backend, ingestion pipelines, time-series data
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Director-level engineering leader to own Cloud Observability at Datadog, managing 40 engineers via managers. Shape product roadmap and strategy for high-scale cloud integrations and data processing (10M+ metric points/sec), drive AI adoption, and build talent across offices.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Own engineering for all of Cloud Observability
- Manage ~40 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 the Agent, Telemetry Onboarding, Integrations, Action Platform, and Infrastructure Monitoring
- Build and retain engineering talent in NYC, Boston, and Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation

## Who You Are
- You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors
- You have deep experience with one or more cloud providers, ideally with experience operating large-scale systems in the cloud
- You have a solid understanding of cloud economics, as well as how to balance performance and cost in cloud computing environments
- You integrate AI deeply into how you lead and how your teams build, treating AI-first thinking as core engineering practice rather than a feature bolted onto the product
- You have a track record of shaping product decisions, not just executing against a spec
- You have worked with large-scale, event-driven or data-intensive backend systems — ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data at scale
- You are comfortable operating in English in a cross-Atlantic org, and are based in New York, Boston, or Paris

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