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Copy of Manager I, Engineering - Language Platform

Lisbon, PortugalFull-time2026-10-07 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead and grow a team of library engineers to evolve Datadog's SDKs for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) across 9 supported languages.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (Language Platform)

Builds

Open-source SDKs, zero-touch APM instrumentation, and platform capabilities for observability.

Domain

Observability, Distributed Systems, Software Development

Required skills

Engineering management, team leadership, technical judgment, Go, C, Rust, systems programming, observability tooling, client-side software development

Preferred skills

Go runtime expertise, experience shipping client-side software

Technologies

Go, C, Rust

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of 4-8 library engineers, own team delivery and productivity, collaborate with Product teams to reshape platform capabilities, stay technically close to the work by contributing code and setting architecture standards, build relationships across language teams and product, shape team identity and culture.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC manager