Director, Engineering

Paris, France; Madrid, Spain

The Observability SRE group is responsible for providing observability across Datadog's entire stack and Engineering organization. As a leader in the observability product space, Datadog can internally leverage many of its own technologies to provide comprehensive and deep visibility into systems enabling reliability, resiliency and security initiatives. Tackling observability at Datadog is a unique challenge due to the vast scale (Datadog collects over a hundred trillion events per day), complexity and critical importance of our platform, offering the chance to make a significant impact, and solve novel technical problems.

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to move this organization forward. They will build and operate teams responsible for Datadog's internal observability experience, configuration and systems with the objective of meeting the company reliability and operational excellence goals. Their other function will be building deep partnerships across engineering and product management to influence a fast-growing product space.

What You’ll Do:

1. Building the roadmap and direction for Internal Observability at Datadog which impacts how Datadog engineers work every day, build new products and operate their systems.
2. Working on building a sustainable organization that can take on the ownership of critical systems required to deploy and maintain our observability stack, working closely with engineers that build the different pieces of the observability products we use.
3. Collaborating with Program Managers and Product Managers to lead dogfooding initiatives, advocating for Datadog to be customer 0 and state-of-the-art in leveraging innovative solutions driven from a SRE and Security perspective.
4. Growing a recently established organization by hiring internally and externally, and building a strong identity for the group.
5. Working with our platform and infrastructure teams to deliver observability natively and seamlessly, increasing engineering productivity and the ability to use these advanced tools out of the box.

Who You Are:

1. You’ve been responsible for building and/or rolling out an observability solution across a large scale engineering organization and stack.
2. You’ve developed engineering leaders and teams who provided critical services for the engineering department.
3. You've been able to drive strong consensus and build a solution in a space for which nobody has declared "ownership" for.
4. You've developed strong relationships with product owners and you've already negotiated and advocated for your requirements.
5. Bonus points if you have been also in a position where you have achieved significant security goals for your organization.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.