Manager I, Engineering (Zero Trust Networking)

Location: Hybrid role based in New York, New York, USA; other listed locations include Boston and Remote - Texas.

Salary: $192,000–$240,000 USD yearly, plus equity and possible variable compensation.

Company

Datadog provides an observability and security platform for the AI era, unifying applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security to help businesses manage complexity at scale.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers through clear expectations, ownership, career development, coaching, and feedback.
• Partner with senior engineers to define technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
• Lead identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms.
• Improve adoption through secure defaults, policy abstractions, migration tooling, and diagnostics.
• Maintain reliability, performance, observability, testing, incident learning, and safe production rollouts.
• Coordinate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners across teams and locations.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
• Understanding of networking and security fundamentals, with interest in enforcing security on production traffic.
• Experience leading complex infrastructure changes or migrations with attention to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
• Experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.
• Clear communication and experience building productive relationships with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
• Technical curiosity, pragmatic judgment, and care for reliable, secure, and easy-to-use platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace centered on office collaboration, relationships, creativity, and work-life harmony.
• New-hire stock equity, ESPP, healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental-health benefits, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a 401(k) plan with match.
• Professional development, product training, career pathing, mentoring, and buddy programs.
• Inclusive culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.
• Benefits may vary by country of employment and employment arrangement.