Director, Engineering - Cloud Observability

Datadog is seeking a Director of Engineering for its Cloud Observability group, one of the core data retrieval and processing groups powering Infrastructure Monitoring. The role oversees all cloud integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, regional and GPU-specific providers), managing ~40 engineers through a team of Engineering Managers, generating more than 10 million metric points per second. The Director partners with Senior Directors and product leadership to shape the roadmap and manages the growth of one of Datadog's foundational teams. Hybrid in Boston, MA or New York, NY. Salary: $296,000–$370,000 USD.

• You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors. • 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 based in New York, Boston, or Paris.