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Manager , Engineering - Alerting Platform

Job in New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for: Datadog
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-01
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Software Engineer, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 187000 - 240000 USD Yearly USD 187000.00 240000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Manager I, Engineering - Alerting Platform
Location: New York

Engineering Managers in the Alerting Platform are responsible for the core systems that define and schedule monitors, create alerts, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the end to end alerting data across the platform. This engineering manager will lead the team that owns the product experience of defining and managing monitors and the critical first step on customers' journey of responding to issues - a "full stack" team, from the UI to the public API.

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
  • Define and prioritize goals in long term roadmaps with engineering and product leadership
  • Work with team members to drive technical direction in architecture decision making and ensuring good review processes
  • Manage and grow team of varying experience levels, intern to senior engineers, with a focus on impact and career development
  • Partner extensively across engineering and product teams to understand needs and collaborate on solutions
  • Lead by example in handling incidents and on-call responsibilities, ensure reliability is a priority.
Who You Are
  • Built and led teams of 4+ engineers
  • Have owned high-scale customer-facing services that are measured on uptime, performance, and correctness
  • Experience with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts
  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience

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.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$187,000—$240,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.

Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #Datadog Life on Instagram, Linked In, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status,…

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