Manager II, Engineering (Data Semantics)

TL;DR

Manager II, Engineering (Data Semantics): Building the foundation that makes Datadog’s data usable and intelligent with an accent on a shared data model that connects raw telemetry to logical datasets. Focus on enabling faster feature delivery, safer migrations, and more reliable enterprise use cases as well as expanding the semantic platform across new data sources and AI initiatives.

Location: Madrid, Spain; Paris, France. Hybrid workplace to ensure employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead and scale a high performing team of 8 engineers by fostering leadership and strengthening technical ownership.
• Drive the technical roadmap for the Data Semantics platform, aligning near-term deliverables with long-term strategic goals across observability, OpenTelemetry, and AI-driven use cases.
• Expand the mandate to support broader engineering initiatives, driving cross-team scope that has outsized impact on platform capabilities, product velocity, and customer experience.
• Act as a strong technical leader, participate in on-call rotations, engage directly with complex technical challenges.
• Lead architectural decisions for distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems while empowering and growing other technical leaders on the team.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Datadog’s engineering management team, helping shape standards, execution discipline, and long-term platform direction across the organization.

Requirements

• Strong track record of leading engineering teams to deliver high-impact outcomes, setting clear expectations, maintaining a high bar for quality, and supporting team members to grow and improve.
• Experience growing senior engineers and emerging leaders, building technical ownership and leadership capacity.
• Deep engineering foundation in backend or platform systems, ideally in data-intensive or distributed environments, with a proven focus on building reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience driving cross-team initiatives that required alignment across multiple stakeholders and delivered impact beyond your immediate team.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable engaging with engineers, product partners, and senior leadership, and able to turn complex technical topics into clear decisions and direction.
• Product-oriented mindset and can define and execute a roadmap that connects platform investments to customer value and broader business priorities.

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 (employee resource groups).
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive global benefits.