Manager I, Engineering - Zero Trust Networking

Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient. As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure.

You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms that other engineers can use confidently.

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, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
• Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
• Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
• Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
• Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
• Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.

Who You Are:

• You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
• You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
• You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
• You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
• You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
• You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.

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

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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:

$192,000—$240,000 USD

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, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.