# Manager I, Engineering - CodeGen
**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $187K-$240K
**Skills:** Python, Go, LLMs, Machine Learning, Statistics, Model Serving, CI/CD, Monitoring, Evaluation Pipelines, Data Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-02-18
> Lead engineering team building AI systems for code understanding, generation, and automated changes. Drive technical roadmap, manage small team, partner cross-functionally, with expertise in Python/Go and production LLM systems.
## Job Description
## What You’ll Do:
- Lead a team of engineers responsible for building production systems that enable code understanding and automated code changes — from parsers and telemetry ingestion to model serving, evaluation, and PR automation.
- Drive technical direction and execution: set a clear roadmap, prioritize work, remove blockers, and raise quality and reliability bar for codegen features (safety, correctness, performance).
- Partner with product, applied research, infra/SRE, security, and other engineering teams to ship end-to-end experiences that safely apply model outputs (PRs, CI checks, automated apply flows).
- Build and maintain robust evaluation and monitoring pipelines (offline and online) to measure model quality, drift, and downstream correctness of code changes.
- Own hiring, performance development, 1:1s, and career growth for your reports; grow a high-performing, inclusive team.
- Be accountable for production readiness: on-call expectations, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs, and operational playbooks for codegen services.
- Maintain engineering rigor around data pipelines, model inputs, determinism, reproducibility, and reproducible CI/CD for model + infra changes.

## Who You Are:
- Proven experience in software engineering and applied science, with a focus on engineering LLM-based systems in production
- Demonstrated experience managing small teams of software engineers and/or applied scientists, with a track record of delivering high-quality products
- Strong software development skills and proficiency in Python and Go
- Strong understanding of machine learning theory, statistics, and fundamentals
- Excellent communication abilities to convey complex technical concepts clearly
- A collaborative mindset and proven experience in working in cross-functional teams
- A proactive approach with a passion for continuous learning and innovation
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