Engineering Manager II (SRE)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager II (SRE): Leading teams focused on resilience validation, chaos engineering, and penetration testing to improve system robustness at scale with an accent on managing managers and strategic reliability vision. Focus on driving risk mitigation efforts, adapting reliability practices to AI-driven development, and building cross-functional partnerships.

Location: Remote/Hybrid in France or Ireland

Company

Datadog is a leading monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale applications.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor engineering managers to foster growth and build high-performing teams.
• Advance the strategic vision for reliability, adapting practices to the impact of AI on software development.
• Define and execute roadmaps that balance immediate impact with long-term system sustainability.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to drive organization-wide reliability.
• Drive risk mitigation efforts and lead initiatives that result in measurable reliability improvements.

Requirements

• Experience managing other managers in dynamic, fast-evolving environments.
• Deep expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to define and communicate a clear vision across a complex organization.
• Must be based in or have work authorization for France or Ireland.

Nice to have

• Exposure to security practices such as penetration testing or adversarial validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive benefits package and new hire stock equity (RSUs).
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Continuous career development and structured pathing opportunities.
• Best-in-class onboarding with internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy programs.
• Hybrid workplace culture focusing on work-life harmony.