# Manager II, Engineering - Logs
**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $234K-$300K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Engineering Leadership, Technical Roadmap Planning, Product Vision, Team Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Scalable Systems, Performance Optimization, People Development, Inclusive Culture Building, Business Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Own a significant portion of Datadog's Logs business as an Engineering Manager II, driving technical roadmap and product vision for a ~30-person org at the intersection of AI, observability, and business strategy.
## 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 the 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 customers.

## Who You Are

- Results-driven and decisive — 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 — think in markets, customers, and revenue, and bring Product, Design, and Engineering together around a shared vision.
- Energized by hard problems and driven to keep growing — seek out challenges, learn from them, and bring others along with curiosity and forward-thinking approach.
- Passionate about developing people — have grown leaders before, and are known for creating opportunities for others to step up and expand their impact.
- Technically curious and continuously learning — have the engineering foundation to earn trust, and the humility to keep deepening your understanding.

## Benefits and Growth

- 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 Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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