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# Director, Engineering - Cloud Observability

- **Company:** Datadog
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $296,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Datadog, Data Ingestion, Backend
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8069508/?gh_jid=8069508

## About the Role

* You have deep experience with one or more cloud providers, ideally with experience operating large-scale systems in the cloud.
 * You have a solid understanding of cloud economics, as well as how to balance performance and cost in cloud computing environments.
 * 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 have worked with large-scale, event-driven or data-intensive backend systems — ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data at scale
 * You are comfortable operating in English in a cross-Atlantic org, and are based in New York, Boston, or Paris.

## Description

* Manage ~40 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 the Agent, Telemetry Onboarding, Integrations, Action Platform, and Infrastructure Monitoring.
 * Build and retain engineering talent in NYC, Boston, and Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation


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