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# Manager I, Engineering - Language Platform

- **Company:** Datadog
- **Location:** Lisbon, IA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Open Source Technology, System Programming, Datadog, Backend
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_c7a07d3a50db7507dbdf563c5610b05d

## About the Role

* An experienced Engineering Manager with a track record of shipping
 * A strong and empathetic leader with the ability to build and lead high-performing teams to deliver high quality software
 * An ability pivot from high level product narratives to highly technical implementation details
 * You have significant programming experience in one or more of: Go, C, Rust
 * Bonus: If you possess experience with one or more of these skills: systems programming experience, observability tooling experience, experience shipping client side software, Go runtime expertise

## Description

* Lead, grow, and develop a team of roughly 4-8 library engineers - coaching, giving direct feedback, and empowering senior ICs as technical leaders owning outcomes
 * Own team delivery and productivity: planning, milestones, reviews
 * Collaborate with Product teams to:

 * Reshape and grow our platform capabilities to enable product teams
 * Define and deliver industry leading, open-source, zero-touch APM instrumentation

Stay technically close to the work - apply strong technical judgment, set a high standard for quality, contribute code where it matters most, and keep quality and architecture high

Build strong relationships and drive alignment across the language teams and product, backend