Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Evaluation & Annotation

Job summary

Responsibilities

As an engineering manager for the Evaluation & Annotation team, you’ll join a new and fast growing team and organization. You will support building and scaling the team, define our technical vision and help shape the roadmap.

• Manage and grow the Evaluation & Annotation team, directly managing 4-6 engineers
• Define our technical roadmap in alignment with AI platform goals and the Applied AI team roadmap.
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and data pipelines to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on work: Code reviews, design reviews and some coding

What they're looking for

• A Software Engineer at heart with a previous experience leading software engineering teams, as a tech lead or people manager
• Excellent leader with strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and lead high-performing teams
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners.
• Strong technician with a mix of backend, data engineer and infrastructure experience who is interested in remaining a hands-on leader