Manager I, Engineering - Experiments

DataDog
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 192,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Stakeholder management","Communication","Collaboration"]

Lead the Experimentation App by owning one to two squads and driving delivery from planning through production. Partner with full-stack/frontend engineers, statisticians, product managers, and designers to turn a deep experimentation roadmap into a shipped product. Set technical direction with credible architecture tradeoffs, collaborate directly with customers to shape requirements, and build team excellence through reviews, blameless postmortems, recruiting, and growth.

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DataDog
2 months ago

Manager I, Engineering - Experiments

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Job Summary

Lead the Experimentation App by owning one to two squads and driving delivery from planning through production. Partner with full-stack/frontend engineers, statisticians, product managers, and designers to turn a deep experimentation roadmap into a shipped product. Set technical direction with credible architecture tradeoffs, collaborate directly with customers to shape requirements, and build team excellence through reviews, blameless postmortems, recruiting, and growth.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead, mentor, and grow full-stack and frontend engineers; support career development and continuous opportunities.
  • •Own Experimentation App delivery from planning through production while balancing speed and quality.
  • •Set technical direction with your team and statistics engineers, engaging credibly on architecture and tradeoffs.
  • •Partner with Product, Design, and customers to shape requirements and translate customer/sales input into the roadmap.
  • •Foster fast iteration and high engineering standards via code reviews, design reviews, and blameless postmortems; recruit and retain talent as the team scales.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 192,000 - 240,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDental401kPaid LeaveEquityRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •2-3 years experience as a people manager, or a technical leader with strong mentorship skills including career development, performance management, velocity tracking, and hiring.
  • •5+ years building and shipping software with strong technical depth to discuss architecture and tradeoffs.
  • •Experience shipping products in a fast-paced environment, balancing speed with quality using customer input as a key decision signal.
  • •Ability to thrive in ambiguity and help teams prioritize and sequence work to deliver consistently.
  • •Strong stakeholder management with empathy, collaboration, and clear communication with engineers and non-technical partners.
Experience:5+ years
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipStakeholder managementCommunicationCollaboration
Languages:En
Tech Stack:Feature flaggingExperimentation platformFull-stackFrontendAI tooling

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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