Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Training & Serving

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As an engineering manager for the Training & Serving team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap. Your team will lead the charge on multiple critical technical challenges: distributed training of foundation models, serving at scale, designing the user experience.

What it asks for · 8

• Previous experience (1+ years) leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
• Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader
• Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• You build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and science, and skillfully coordinate among multiple stakeholders
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and making decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

What the job covers

• Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers
• Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap.
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage, infrastructure and data pipelines to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• platform5×
• build4×
• infrastructure4×
• training4×
• data3×
• engineers3×
• experience3×
• lead3×
• products3×
• roadmap3×
• technical3×
• applied2×
• building2×
• challenges2×
• coding2×

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