Manager I, Engineering - APM Serverless

DataDog
New York, Boston, Texas
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 192,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Collaboration","Partner/stakeholder management"]

Lead a polyglot engineering team to define and deliver Datadog’s end-to-end serverless APM experience, from auto-instrumentation through troubleshooting. Drive technically deep work across AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and GCP, expanding coverage of managed services while improving distributed tracing and frictionless customer onboarding for OpenTelemetry and Datadog-native users. Partner with product and engineering to shape strategy and execution for core cloud platforms and emerging serverless environments.

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DataDog
DataDog
2 months ago

Manager I, Engineering - APM Serverless

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Job Summary

Lead a polyglot engineering team to define and deliver Datadog’s end-to-end serverless APM experience, from auto-instrumentation through troubleshooting. Drive technically deep work across AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and GCP, expanding coverage of managed services while improving distributed tracing and frictionless customer onboarding for OpenTelemetry and Datadog-native users. Partner with product and engineering to shape strategy and execution for core cloud platforms and emerging serverless environments.
Location: New York, Boston, Texas
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a polyglot team of 8–9 engineers and partner with Product and Engineering to deliver serverless instrumentation capabilities.
  • •Drive a technically rich domain covering Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP, OTel billing, Rust, durable functions, and distributed tracing across managed services.
  • •Partner with the product manager to shape strategy and execution for AWS, Azure, and GCP and new managed platforms.
  • •Expand cloud-managed service coverage across providers so customers can trace and monitor critical services in major and emerging cloud environments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 192,000 - 240,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDental401kPaid LeaveRsus

Key Requirements

  • •Experience as an Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping products.
  • •Experience working across two or more programming languages and building cross-runtime systems.
  • •Comfort building developer-facing libraries with a focus on OSS software development.
  • •Strong developer experience mindset: clean APIs and reliable systems.
  • •Ability to translate high-level product narratives into detailed technical implementation and partner/stakeholder management.
Experience:ServerlessObservabilityOpenTelemetryCloud
Skills:CollaborationPartner/stakeholder management
Tech Stack:OpenTelemetryDatadog-nativeAWS LambdaAzure FunctionsGCPDistributed tracingRustDurable functionsAuto-instrumentationOTel billingAPIsServerless APM

Company Brief

DataDog
Provides a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals to help engineering, operations, and security teams monitor and troubleshoot modern applications and infrastructure.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
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