Manager I, Engineering - CCM Optimize

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 Optimize team on CCM maintains a library of recommendations to identify wasted spend, remediations thereof, and create automated actions for reducing overall costs.

Building and maintaining the recommendations can be labor intensive, requiring becoming experts in the operation of and billing for each cloud service, and tapping into Datadog’s customer telemetry and observability data to identify infrastructure modifications that save money without jeopardizing system stability. 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 prioritize and realize potential savings identified as recommendations

Build new recommendations based on the highest impact to customers

Help set the industry standard for ROI calculations and score cards

Drive the technical direction of the Recommendations 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, and code reviews

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 (3+ 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.

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. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee 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

$187,000

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$240,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on

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