Manager II, Engineering - Runtime

Historically, profilers have been used during development or as one-off experiments in non-production environments to optimize resource usage, debug performance problems, or investigate incidents. The Continuous Profiler team at Datadog is building a cutting-edge profiling product that has low enough overhead to run continuously in production, unlocking insights into customer applications running real workloads at scale.

As our next Senior Engineering Manager (EM2) for the Runtime teams, you will lead all of Datadog’s runtime-focused teams — the teams that shape the future of profiling and observability across major runtimes like OpenJDK, Go, and others. This is a unique opportunity to influence how millions of developers see and improve their code in production, while collaborating with open source communities and driving innovation in runtime engineering.

You will manage multiple teams and staff-level engineers responsible for profiling libraries, eBPF-based profiling capabilities, crash tracking, and other runtime integrations. Your leadership will ensure that we build the right features at the right time, maintain a high bar for technical quality, and keep Datadog at the forefront of observability innovation.

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.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead multiple runtime teams and a group of staff engineers building:
• Language specific profiling libraries (Java, Go, Python and more)
• eBPF profiling capabilities
• Crash tracking and runtime instrumentation features
• Partner closely with product management, design, our design partners and other APM teams to set and follow up on roadmaps and help prioritize initiatives
• Mentor and grow engineering managers and staff engineers, building healthy, high-performing teams distributed across multiple geographies
• Ensure that our runtime integrations are performant, stable and deliver high-value insights to customers at scale

Who You Are:

• Proven track record scaling engineering teams: hiring, coaching, succession planning, and building distributed team structures.
• Experience managing managers and/or staff engineers in deeply technical domains.
• Strong technical credibility in runtime or systems engineering, ideally with the JVM, Go, CPython, Rust, LLVM, or similar).
• Excellent communicator (English), able to represent team strategy to executives, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders and communities.
• Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space.
• Customer empathy and product intuition: you can translate enterprise developer pain points into actionable runtime improvements.

Bonus points for:

• Open source leadership or contributions to major runtime projects (OpenJDK, Go, CPython, Rust, or similar)
• Experience leading teams building developer/runtime tooling such as profilers, debuggers or other runtime visibility
• Experience managing teams across time zones
• Exposure to machine learning observability or performance engineering at scale
• Thought leadership in observability: speaking at conferences, writing articles or influencing standards

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.