engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoManager II, Engineering - Applied AI (NorAm)
at Datadoghq
New York, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow multiple teams of engineers, applied scientists, and managers working on AI-powered features across the Datadog platform
- Ship AI products end-to-end, from data pipelines and model training through evaluation, deployment, and production operations
- Coach and develop senior engineers and managers, building a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and clear feedback
- Drive collaboration across Applied AI, product, and partner engineering teams to deliver on Datadog's AI priorities
- Build evaluation and quality practices for AI systems, offline benchmarks, online metrics, and continuous improvement loops
- Own operational excellence for your teams' systems: reliability, on-call, incident response, and technical quality
Requirements
- Datadog's Applied AI group builds AI foundations and AI-powered features across the Datadog platform.
- We train ML models, build agents, and ship natural language interfaces that help thousands of customers detect problems, investigate incidents, and act on their infrastructure.
- Our teams work with some of the world's richest observability data, hundreds of trillions of data points per day, to build production AI at real scale.
- Our work spans ML models, agentic systems, conversational AI, foundation models, and the infrastructure that supports them.
- You drive work from research through production, partner with product to set priorities, and help shape how Datadog uses AI to close the loop between detecting a problem and fixing it.
- Hire and plan for organizational growth as the AI group scales
- Help shape Datadog's broader AI roadmap and promote best practices in ML engineering and career development across the organization Who You Are:
- An experienced technical leader with a strong background in AI, machine learning, or data science
- Proven track record building and shipping ML or AI-powered products in production •
- Experience leading and mentoring multiple teams, including senior engineers and engineering managers
- Deep technical expertise in one or more areas: large language models, agentic systems, anomaly detection, time-series modeling, NLP, retrieval-augmented generation, or ML infrastructure
- A strong people manager who can attract, develop, and retain top AI and engineering talent
- BS/MS/PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 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
- Set technical vision and strategy for your area in partnership with Product
- Comfortable partnering with Product to set vision and strategy, and turning ambiguous problems into clear plans
- 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: $244,000 — $305,000 USD
Additional details
- As a Manager II, you will lead multiple teams of engineers, applied scientists, and managers in this space.
- You own the technical direction and the team culture.
- At Datadog, we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings.
- We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do:
- 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.
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Competitive global benefits Giving programs
- Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.