Engineering Manager, Data Visualizations Explorations

About the Role

Lead the Data Visualizations Explorations team within Datadog's Graphing organization. You will set product direction, coach and develop team members, and drive projects that build end-to-end experiences for observability engineers. This includes enhancing core widgets like Hostmap and Geomap Visualizations and finding new ways to leverage existing Datadog data sources. You will also collaborate closely with other product teams to understand customer needs and deliver compelling data experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Work with Product Management and Design to plan and staff projects for the Data Visualization Explorations team.
• Coach and develop engineers at various levels.
• Ensure strong cross-team communication and design best practices around project management, code review, architecture patterns, and more.
• Proactively anticipate cross-team dependencies and blockers. Identify opportunities to reuse or customize features across dashboards, notebooks, and product pages.
• Deeply understand customer needs and those of other Datadog products. Participate in customer conversations, review product briefs, read feature requests, and coach team members.
• Define and maintain high standards for operations practices, including bug triage, incident response, and performance telemetry analysis.

Who You Are

• At least 2 years of people management experience in a software engineering or similar setting.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, with familiarity in frontend frameworks like React.
• Excellent communication skills, including delivering clear, actionable, and empathetic feedback.
• Product-oriented: prioritize solving customer problems and iterating on features quickly.
• Passionate about data visualization and building intuitive, performant user interfaces.
• Demonstrated sense of ownership over your team's work.
• [Bonus] Active participant in the data visualization or software engineering community (conference talks, blog posts, open source, teaching/mentorship).

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; 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.

About Datadog

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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