Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Training & Serving

## Responsibilities - Manage and grow the Training & Serving team, directly managing 10+ engineers - Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap. - Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage, infrastructure and data pipelines to our needs - Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus - Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding ## Requirements - Previous experience (1+ years) leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager - Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader - Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams - Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle - You build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and science, and skillfully coordinate among multiple stakeholders - You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and making decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments - You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output ## Nice to Have - Motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products ## 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 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.