Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. They are seeking a Manager I for their CodeGen team to lead engineers in building systems that use AI for code understanding and automated changes, ensuring high quality and performance in their products.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers responsible for building production systems that enable code understanding and automated code changes — from parsers and telemetry ingestion to model serving, evaluation, and PR automation
- Drive technical direction and execution: set a clear roadmap, prioritize work, remove blockers, and raise quality and reliability bar for codegen features (safety, correctness, performance)
- Partner with product, applied research, infra/SRE, security, and other engineering teams to ship end-to-end experiences that safely apply model outputs (PRs, CI checks, automated apply flows)
- Build and maintain robust evaluation and monitoring pipelines (offline and online) to measure model quality, drift, and downstream correctness of code changes
- Own hiring, performance development, 1:1s, and career growth for your reports; grow a high-performing, inclusive team
- Be accountable for production readiness: on-call expectations, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs, and operational playbooks for codegen services
- Maintain engineering rigor around data pipelines, model inputs, determinism, reproducibility, and reproducible CI/CD for model + infra changes
Skills
- Proven experience in software engineering and applied science, with a focus on engineering LLM-based systems in production
- Demonstrated experience managing small teams of software engineers and/or applied scientists, with a track record of delivering high-quality products
- Strong software development skills and proficiency in Python and Go
- Strong understanding of machine learning theory, statistics, and fundamentals
- Excellent communication abilities to convey complex technical concepts clearly
- A collaborative mindset and proven experience in working in cross-functional teams
- A proactive approach with a passion for continuous learning and innovation
- Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
- You're 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
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- A 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company Overview
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.datadoghq.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Datadog has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2026, 123 in 2025, 66 in 2024, 45 in 2023, 53 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 29 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.