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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 78 days Datadog's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Datadog's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Datadog
- high 445 stale, 32 reposted of 455 open
- Hiring momentum
- 589 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Datadog's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Datadog.
About this role
As an Engineering Manager for the Security Libraries team at Datadog, you will lead a team of 4-8 engineers focused on customer-side integrations for security products. Your role involves balancing people leadership with product ownership, ensuring the operational health of code in production, and driving the development of new security capabilities. You will work closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to set product direction and maintain high-quality standards in a hybrid work environment.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Datadog as an employer.
What you need
- Experience managing a team of engineers
- Senior software-engineering background with strong technical judgment
- Track record of developing people through coaching and feedback
- Strong cross-team communication skills
- Experience building libraries, SDKs, developer tooling, or systems/run-time software
- Pragmatic product-engineering experience with technical trade-offs against customer impact
Nice to have
- Application security background (WAF, RASP, IAST/SCA)
- Hands-on experience with one of the languages (.NET, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP)
- Experience leading distributed or multi-language teams
What you get
- 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 with Community Guilds
- Access to Inclusion Talks
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Role involves hands-on coding and technical judgment
- Hybrid workplace may require flexibility in work arrangements
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Listed by Datadog on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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