Manager I, Engineering

Cloud Cost Management (CCM) provides insights for engineering and finance teams to understand how infrastructure changes impact costs, allocate spend across your organization, and identify inefficiencies. Our tools are used to reign in costs and ensure that cloud spend dollars are not wasted. The Commitment Programs team on CCM builds tools and automations for customers to make the best use of savings plans, reserved instances, and other commitments and discounts from cloud providers. These tools allow less mature customers to adopt sophisticated FinOps practices to reduce unnecessary costs.

Building and maintaining these tools requires deep knowledge of the programs available, which can vary significantly between cloud providers. By tapping into Datadog's customer telemetry and observability data in addition to their cloud billing data, we can identify the optimal commitments to make for the greatest discounts. In this role, you'll have direct influence on the product roadmap and prioritization of new features.

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who cares about technical excellence, enabling customer success, and the professional development of engineers on the team.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You'll Do: 

• Lead a team of 7 Engineers (mix of frontend and backend) and collaborate with a Product Manager and Designer to
  • Help customers identify and act on suggested changes to cloud provider commitment programs
  • Build coverage for additional cloud providers, e.g., GCP, Azure, OCI
  • Build automations to manage commitment programs on customers' behalf
  • Bring sophisticated FinOps practices to customers without dedicated FinOps expertise
• Drive the technical direction of the Commitment Programs product, setting a high quality standard and investing for future development
• Own technical and product outcomes, including code quality, system SLAs/SLOs, and user experience through goal setting, design collaboration, code reviews, and contributing code directly
• Identify strengths and development areas for Engineers on the team to help them grow in their careers
• Work with other managers in the CCM group to foster a culture of ownership, independence, and accountability

Who You Are:

• An experienced (2+ years) Engineering Manager with a history of shipping quickly while maintaining a high quality standard, driving impact for customers
• An empathetic leader who builds high-performing teams through a human-first approach to management
• The ability to "elevation-shift" from high-level customer-focused product roadmapping to deep technical implementation conversations
• Comfortable with writing code, performing code reviews, participating in technical design discussions
• Experience managing cloud spend and/or cloud infrastructure

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. 

Benefits and Growth: 

• 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.