Manager I, Engineering - Security Libraries
Job description
Engineering Manager leading part of the Security Libraries team, which owns customer-side integrations behind Datadog's run-time security products (App & API Protection, Workload Protection, Code Security) across seven open-source language libraries and HTTP proxy integrations. The role is hands-on, balancing people leadership, product and roadmap ownership, and operational health of production code.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Paris, France
What you'll do
- Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers — coaching, giving direct feedback, and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders
- Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews, and the on-call rotation
- Set product direction with Product Management and balance priorities across App & API Protection, Workload Protection, and Code Security
- Stay technically close to the work — apply strong technical judgment, contribute code where it matters most, and keep quality and architecture high
- Build strong relationships and drive alignment across the language teams and product, backend, and frontend partners
- Shape team identity and culture, and own accountability when problems occur
What we're looking for
- Experience managing a team of engineers — setting direction with Product Managers, owning a backlog, and running delivery
- A senior software-engineering background with strong technical judgment
- A track record developing people: coaching, direct feedback, and helping engineers, both senior and struggling, grow
- Strong cross-team communication, comfortable driving alignment across many stakeholders
- Experience building libraries, SDKs, developer tooling, or systems/run-time software
- Pragmatic product-engineering experience — you've worked with Product Managers and weighed technical trade-offs against customer impact
Nice to have
- An application security background (WAF, RASP, IAST/SCA) or adjacent observability/APM experience
- Hands-on experience with one of our languages (.NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP) or open-source stewardship
- Experience leading distributed or multi-language teams across many stakeholders
Your team
Security Libraries
Owns the customer-side integrations behind Datadog's run-time security products — App & API Protection, Workload Protection, and Code Security — shipping and maintaining security capabilities across seven open-source language libraries (.NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP) and a set of HTTP proxy integrations (Envoy, NGINX, and HAProxy), running inside thousands of production clusters worldwide.
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 (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
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About Datadog
The leading observability and security platform for the AI era
Datadog 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. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
Key facts
- observability and security platform
- Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders
- Security Libraries team's integrations run inside thousands of production clusters worldwide