Manager I, Engineering

Description

The company's client SDKs run inside our customers' mobile apps and websites, and every the company client-side product depends on them, including Real User Monitoring, Session Replay, Product Analytics, and Feature Flags. We maintain 11 open source SDKs across Browser, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, and more.

As the Engineering Manager for Client SDKs, you'll build and lead the team that makes it easy for any team at the company to ship into those SDKs safely: fast CI, predictable releases, a shared spec across SDKs, and tooling that lets engineers and coding agents contribute without waiting on a review queue. It's a rare chance to own a developer platform that ships in public, at a scale where small decisions reach a lot of customers, and to shape how the company builds client-side products in the AI-native era. Both the team and its scope are expanding, so there's plenty of room to grow.

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

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow a team of mostly senior software engineers, hiring well and helping senior and staff engineers grow their impact and careers
• Own CI and test infrastructure across the SDK repositories: set health targets, detect and quarantine flaky tests, and provide test frameworks that engineers and coding agents can run locally
• Define release cadences and help customers adopt updates, managing breaking changes in SDKs that can't be rolled back once they're installed in customers' apps
• Keep SDKs consistent through a shared specification, and remove the review bottleneck so product teams can ship SDK changes without waiting on a small group of experts
• Partner with product teams such as Session Replay, Product Analytics, and Feature Flags, along with our SDK guilds and server SDK teams, to guide SDK changes from design to release
• Build feature sets for new product capabilities and bring that to all partner teams
• Bring AI coding agents into how the team builds, tests, and ships, and take part in business-hours release, hotfix, and support escalation duty (no 24/7 pager)

Requirements

• Experienced in managing a team of software engineers, including senior engineers
• Someone who has shipped and maintained SDKs, libraries, or developer tools that other engineers depend on
• Strong in at least one of Mobile Platforms, including iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin) , or Browser (TypeScript), and able to hold a technical conversation about applications development.
• Knowledgeable in release engineering, CI/CD, versioning, and backwards compatibility
• Able to influence other teams without formal authority and build alignment across product teams
• Open source maintainer experience, especially working with outside contributors
• Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, or OpenTelemetry SDKs
• Familiarity with cross-platform frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform
• Experience leading a platform or developer experience team
• Experience using AI coding agents in your team's workflow
• The company 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

• 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 (the company 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 the company.
• LI-Hybrid
• About the company:
• The company 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. Learn more about DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and the company Learning Center.