Director, Engineering - Detection Platform
Core
Lead a multi-team engineering organization building foundational alerting infrastructure, event management, monitor creation experiences, and AI-powered detection systems for Datadog's observability platform.
Role type
Director, Engineering - Detection Platform
Builds
Large-scale alerting and detection platform systems processing hundreds of millions of evaluations
Domain
Observability, monitoring, and AI-powered anomaly detection
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Leading large-scale engineering organizations, defining technical and organizational strategy, driving AI innovation, scaling highly available systems, mentoring engineering managers, customer-centric product thinking
Preferred skills
Experience with machine learning and intelligent automation, deep technical expertise in observability or developer-facing products, ability to navigate ambiguity
Technologies
AI-powered detection systems, large-scale platform systems
Responsibilities
Lead multi-team engineering organization, define and execute technical strategy, drive innovation in AI-powered detection, scale highly available platform systems, develop and mentor engineering managers, champion customer-centric product thinking
Seniority
Director, hands-on leadership & strategy
