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Posted 2 weeks agoProduct Manager II - Application Performance Monitoring
at Datadoghq
New York, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Lead conversations with design partners and strategic customers to uncover real-world performance issues, validate product assumptions, and guide solutions from early prototypes through General Availability •
- Define and deliver the next generation of APM features with engineering and design, especially agentic onboarding and the out of the box experience, AI-driven troubleshooting and root-cause analysis •
- Drive discussions with engineers, design and other PM teams by providing clearly articulated problem statements to deliver seamless cross-product experiences and unified investigative workflows •
- Track adoption, retention and measure impact for your product and iterate rapidly based on data and customer conversations Who you are: •
Requirements
- APM provides deep visibility from end-user interactions to backend services and we are now expanding this foundation with new AI-driven insights, guidance, and automation.
- As a Product Manager II for APM, you will work with world-class engineers, designers, and partner product teams to shape the future of Distributed Tracing, Performance Analysis, and Intelligent Troubleshooting.
- Develop a deep understanding of APM customers, their performance challenges, telemetry workflows, and competitors •
- Partner with marketing, sales, customer success, support, and other cross-functional groups to define Go-To-Market for your features •
- experience as a Product Manager, ideally working on a developer-focused SaaS or infrastructure product • You have
- experience working on production-level AI projects, from conception through launch and iteration, ideally involving ML-driven insights, automated workflows or intelligent guidance in complex systems •
- experience or deep expertise in modern software development and distributed systems •
- Experience with cloud applications, distributed tracing, performance analysis, microservices or profiling technologies; fluency in programming languages
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
- It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
- Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Benefits
- You enjoy using AI to explore ideas, quickly prototype and then validate with customers to shape the roadmap • Bonus :
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) •
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
- Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
- benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $156,000 — $195,000 USD
Additional details
- At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams.
- We operate at high scale, enabling seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops, and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies.
- Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
- APM at Datadog is on its way to redefine how users interact with their telemetry.
- We are integrating intelligence directly into troubleshooting workflows to help engineers find root causes faster, navigate complex distributed systems seamlessly, and optimize application performance with minimal cognitive load.
- You will help build advanced capabilities that scale to thousands of customers and make sophisticated observability workflows accessible to every engineer, from experts to beginners.
- At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.
- We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
- Make complex performance data, traces, and systems behavior understandable and actionable, even for engineers who are new to observability •
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and are comfortable presenting and defending product decisions to cross functional stakeholders •