Engineering Manager II – APM DCS Platform Delivery

Datadog

Engineering Manager II at Datadog focusing on improving developer productivity through team leadership and innovative solutions. Responsible for driving performance engineering and release experience across platforms.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇰 DenmarkMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and grow the careers of engineers across three teams.
Set the vision and roadmap for developer productivity; Drive our performance engineering practice and own the release experience.
Partner with product, infrastructure, and internal CI teams across Datadog to understand how they build software and continuously increase the efficiency of our workflows.
Scale and evolve fault-tolerant, tier-0 CI and CD systems to support growth into new and more complex environments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

An experienced people manager who invests in career growth, mentoring, and building healthy, high-trust teams.
A strong project-delivery leader with a track record of roadmap planning and shipping in collaboration with partner teams.
Skilled in system design, with the ability to set and raise the technical bar for reliable, high-scale systems, challenging complexity and ensuring the team delivers highest value for the investment.
You thrive partnering across many stakeholders, internal customers, platform providers, and sister teams.
Bonus: experience with internal tooling or developer-productivity teams, continuous integration/delivery systems, benchmarking, or AWS.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

System DesignProject DeliveryCI/CD SystemsPerformance EngineeringBenchmarking

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationTeam BuildingCommunication