# Manager I, Engineering

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $192k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Tracing, OpenTelemetry, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, Rust, Observability, Oss Development
**Posted:** 2026-07-13

> Lead a team of 8-9 engineers building Datadog's serverless APM experience, including auto-instrumentation, distributed tracing for cloud-managed services across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and OpenTelemetry support. Requires strong engineering management experience, passion for developer experience, and comfort across multiple languages and cloud runtimes.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Lead a polyglot team of 8-9 engineers and partner closely with Product and Engineering teams across Datadog to deliver industry-leading serverless capabilities that power consistent, scalable, and intuitive instrumentation across languages.
- Drive a domain that is technically rich: Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, OTel billing, Rust, durable functions, distributed tracing across managed services. Engineers on this team work across languages, clouds, and deployment models.
- Partner with the product manager to shape the strategy and execution for our 3 main clouds - AWS, Azure and GCP, in addition to being at the cutting edge of new managed platforms and how we can bring distributed tracing to them.

## Who You Are

- An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping products.
- Highly collaborative.
- Experienced in two or more languages and comfortable building cross-runtime systems.
- Have a passion for libraries and OSS software development.
- Care about developer experience, clean APIs, and reliable systems.
- An ability to pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details (and articulate how one impacts the other).
- Comfortable with partner and stakeholder management.

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