Manager I, Engineering - Zero Trust Networking

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient. As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms that other engineers can use confidently.

What it asks for · 6

• You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
• You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
• You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
• You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
• You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
• You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.

What the job covers

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
• Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
• Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
• Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
• Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• engineers6×
• security5×
• grow4×
• infrastructure4×
• platforms4×
• production4×
• secure4×
• adoption3×
• builds3×
• mechanisms3×
• networking3×
• technical3×
• authorization2×
• clear2×
• complex2×
• default2×

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