Manager I, Engineering - Zero Trust Networking
About The Position
Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. The team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms to protect customer data while keeping the production platform reliable and efficient. The Engineering Manager will grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure. The role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms other engineers can use confidently. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing the relationships, creativity, collaboration, and work-life harmony supported by its office culture.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
- Clear communication skills and experience building productive cross-team relationships with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
- Understanding of networking and security fundamentals, with an interest in building mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
- Experience leading complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
- Technical curiosity, pragmatic judgment, and care for making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
- Experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, establishing 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Inclusive company culture and ability to join Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, internal panel discussions
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits, which may vary by country of employment and nature of employment
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
