Datadog
Manager II, Engineering - Datadog Agent SDLC
$244K–$305K
Boston, Massachusetts, USA +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, MA, United States
New York, NY, United States
About the job
Leads the teams and systems that enable contributors to build, test, secure, and ship the Datadog Agent, while evolving its development lifecycle and AI coding workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead Agent developer experience, build systems, correctness, and performance benchmarking teams.
- Own software supply-chain security and evolve lifecycle tools and workflows for contributors and coding-agent use.
- Develop engineering managers and staff engineers, and guide multi-team technical and organizational change.
What they ask for
- Experience owning software development lifecycle systems and developer infrastructure.
- First-hand experience with AI coding tools and workflows.
- Experience leading multiple teams through technical and organizational change.
- Track record scaling engineering teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and global team structures.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with complex multi-language environments, CI/CD, remote build execution, and caching.
- Experience with Bazel or similar build systems.
Pay
$244,000 — $305,000 USD (yearly salary)
Tools
Bazel, CI/CD
AI focus
Drive AI coding enablement across the Agent ecosystem and adapt development workflows and infrastructure as engineers work alongside coding agents; address risks coding agents introduce to software supply-chain security.
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