Hiring: Manager I, Engineering - Change Experience Platform Company: Datadog Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:44:55 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Cassandra, Datadog, Design System, Elasticsearch, Java, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, User Experience About the job Required Skills: •Partner closely with infrastructure, developer experience, platform engineering, and product teams to build reusable interfaces, workflows, and safety mechanisms that make complex change processes easier to understand and safer to execute. •Help the team balance framework ownership, platform reliability, internal customer needs, and long-term technical direction across a portfolio that includes UI systems, CLI authoring and publishing, change-management workflows, notification routing, subscriptions, and infrastructure cordon management. •Lead and grow a small team of engineers responsible for internal platforms and product experiences used across Datadog engineering. Qualifications: •You have experience managing engineers working on internal platforms, developer tooling, infrastructure tooling, product platforms, or similar internally focused systems. •You have strong technical judgment across distributed systems, internal tools, APIs, data models, and user-facing engineering workflows. •You understand that internal platforms succeed through adoption, trust, reliability, and clear user experience, not just technical correctness. •You have experience working directly with engineering customers, platform teams, or infrastructure teams to understand their workflows and improve how they get work done. •You have significant experience in one or more backend languages, such as Go, Python, Java, or similar; and with different types of data stores, such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis or ElasticSearch. •You have enough frontend or product-surface fluency to guide teams building internal UIs, design systems, workflow tools, or other user-facing engineering experiences. •Bonus points: You’re familiar with AI development workflows and the tools that facilitate them. •You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience. •Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. •New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Compensation: •$192,000 - $240,000 / year •Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!