# Manager II, Engineering - Logs

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $234k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Engineering Management, Technical Leadership, Roadmap Planning, Product Vision, Scalable Systems, Observability, AI/ML, People Development, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-02

> Engineering Manager II owning a major portion of Datadog's Logs product. Co-define technical roadmap and vision with Product/Design, grow engineering leaders and org of ~30, partner with platform teams for reliable scalable observability (AI-driven), and drive business impact through customer-focused execution.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Own the success of the Logs business for your scope — co-define the Logs technical roadmap and product vision with Product, Design, and peer leadership. Blend an understanding of customers, markets, and revenue drivers with deep engineering rigor to deliver our core vision.
- Act as a key collaborator across Datadog, building strong partnerships with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure a highly reliable, scalable and performant product.
- Invest in the next generation of engineering leaders — growing your managers, expanding their impact, and building a high-performing engineering organization where people continuously develop and thrive.
- Foster a culture of ambition and resilience — where people lean into hard problems, iterate rapidly, and hold themselves to a high collective standard.
- Build an inclusive environment focused on fostering top-tier talent, ensuring that diverse perspectives are leveraged to build the best possible solution.
- Manage the complexity of a large organization — anticipating risks, resolving friction, and keeping teams focused on what matters to our customers.

## Who You Are

- Results-driven and decisive — you work hard to cut through ambiguity and consistently create the conditions for the people around you to do their best work.
- A business owner at heart — you think in markets, customers, and revenue, and you bring Product, Design, and Engineering together around a shared vision.
- Energized by hard problems and driven to keep growing — you seek out challenges, learn from them, and bring others along with your curiosity and forward-thinking approach.
- Passionate about developing people — you've grown leaders before, and you're known for creating opportunities for others to step up and expand their impact.
- Technically curious and continuously learning — you have the engineering foundation to earn trust, and the humility to keep deepening your understanding.

## 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 (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan

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