The opportunity
Datadog's Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) group is one of the company's fastest-growing product areas, spanning Real User Monitoring (RUM), Product Analytics, Synthetic Monitoring, Feature Flags, and Datadog Studio, our newest AI-native observability surface. As Director,…
What you'll do
Own engineering for one or more DEM product areas with scope calibrated to your background and strengths
Manage 50-60 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role
Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing: against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area
Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to: product features and team practices
Navigate cross-team dependencies across DEM, APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science
Build and retain engineering talent in Paris, mentor Engineering Managers: toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation
What they're looking for
- You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual: contributors — this is a non-negotiable requirement for the role
- You integrate AI deeply into how you lead and how your teams build, treating: AI-first thinking as core engineering practice rather than a feature bolted onto the product
- You have a track record of shaping product decisions, not just executing against a spec
- You've worked with large-scale, event-driven or data-intensive backend: systems — ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data at scale
