Manager I, Engineering - Language Platform

Datadog · Madrid, Spain; Paris, France · Dev Eng · listed October 7, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Manager
Where
Hybrid
Requirements listed
5
Length
781 words

In the posting’s own words

Leading the evolution of our SDKs is a technically demanding and highly collaborative effort. You’ll work with language experts to deliver cutting-edge observability products across our 9 supported languages, with industry leading performance and a world class developer experience. You’ll rethink our SDKs’ architecture, APIs, data models, and protocol to meet Datadog’s current needs and scale, all while building in the open. And you’ll grow your team’s capacity by fostering a culture focused on customer needs, continuous learning, and innovation.

What it asks for · 5

  • An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
  • A strong and empathetic leader with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams to deliver high quality software
  • An ability pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details
  • You have significant programming experience in one or more of: Go, C, Rust
  • Bonus : If you possess experience with one or more of these skills: systems programming experience, observability tooling experience, experience shipping client side software, Go runtime expertise

What the job covers

  • Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers — coaching, giving direct feedback, and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders owning outcomes
  • Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews
  • Collaborate with Product teams to:
  • Reshape and grow our platform capabilities to enable product teams
  • Define and deliver industry leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation
  • Stay technically close to the work — apply strong technical judgment, set a high standard for quality, contribute code where it matters most, and keep quality and architecture high
  • Build strong relationships and drive alignment across the language teams and product, backend
  • Shape team identity and culture

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Datadog6×
  • Observability2×
  • Distributed systems
Languages
  • Go2×
  • Rust
Security & compliance
  • Security
Ways of working
  • Mentorship

Words the posting leans on

  • product7×
  • experience6×
  • technical5×
  • apm4×
  • grow4×
  • sdks4×
  • build3×
  • culture3×
  • deliver3×
  • language3×
  • quality3×
  • architecture2×
  • data2×
  • delivery2×
  • developer2×
  • empowering2×

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