Manager II, Engineering - AI Platform Training, Serving And Storage (AI)

TL;DR

Manager II, Engineering - AI Platform Training, Serving and Storage (AI Engineering): Leading the AI platform responsible for all AI infrastructure across Datadog, providing tools and platforms for large-scale training and inference. Focus on building and scaling the team, defining technical vision, and shaping the roadmap in collaboration with partner teams and product engineering.

Location: Hybrid in Paris, France

Company

Datadog is a global SaaS business delivering growth and profitability, focused on breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age through digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring.

What you will do

• Lead a fast-growing organization of around 20 people across multiple teams.
• Define the roadmap for your scope, working with ICs and managers to establish technical direction.
• Collaborate with the engineering team and product manager to define the future of the roadmap.
• Create a strong organizational culture centered around engineering standards and a customer-focused approach.
• Support the whole lifecycle of AI development, including model training, serving, deployment, and monitoring.

Requirements

• Experience leading teams that have built ML/AI Platforms from the ground up, with an emphasis on Open Source Tooling (i.e. Ray / AnyScale).
• Experienced engineer and team player with strong technical skills to influence the technical direction of your teams.
• People leader with strong interpersonal skills, who has built and led high-performing software engineering teams, including managing managers.
• Interested in working on an early-stage project with many challenges and a fast iteration cycle.
• Track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners.

Culture & Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents.
• Competitive global benefits.