Manager I, Engineering - Zero Trust Networking

Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient. As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms that other engineers can use confidently.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating 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