Manager I, Engineering - Client SDKs (Mobile & Browser)

Location: Hybrid workplace in Madrid, Spain or Paris, France.

Company

Datadog provides an observability and security platform for the AI era, combining visibility across applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and grow a team of mostly senior software engineers, including hiring and career development.
• Own CI and test infrastructure across 11 open-source SDK repositories, including health targets, flaky-test quarantine, and local tooling.
• Define release cadences, manage breaking changes, and support customer adoption of SDK updates that cannot be rolled back after installation.
• Maintain a shared specification across Browser, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, and other SDKs.
• Partner with product teams, SDK guilds, and server SDK teams to guide changes from design through release and deliver new capabilities across partner teams.
• Introduce AI coding agents into development, testing, and release workflows and participate in business-hours release, hotfix, and support escalation duty without a 24/7 pager.

Requirements

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including senior engineers.
• Experience shipping and maintaining SDKs, libraries, or developer tools used by other engineers.
• Strong expertise in at least one mobile or browser platform: iOS with Swift, Android with Kotlin, or Browser with TypeScript; able to discuss application development technically.
• Knowledge of release engineering, CI/CD, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Ability to influence teams without formal authority and build alignment across product teams.

Nice to have

• Open-source maintainer experience, especially with external contributors.
• Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, or OpenTelemetry SDKs.
• Familiarity with React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Experience leading a platform or developer experience team.
• Experience using AI coding agents in a team workflow.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace designed to support collaboration and work-life harmony.
• New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Professional development, product training, career pathing, and mentor and buddy programs.
• Inclusive culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.
• Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents aged 6+, plus competitive benefits that vary by employment country and employment nature.