Manager I, Engineering - Sensitive Data Scanner

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Sensitive Data Scanner (SDS) Telemetry team. The SDS group’s mission is to be the world’s easiest-to-use tool to discover, classify, manage, and report sensitive data risks across cloud, on-premise, and code environments. This team builds and scales the detection capabilities that scan all telemetry data flowing into Datadog — logs, APM spans, and RUM events — operating in streaming, at processing time, and at very large scale. You’ll lead a small, close-knit team based in Paris, with the opportunity to shape how the team grows as SDS Telemetry’s scope expands. It’s a chance to combine hands-on technical leadership with direct customer and product impact in the security and observability space.

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

What You’ll Do

Lead and grow a team of engineers building real-time sensitive data detection across Datadog’s Logs, APM, and RUM telemetry pipelines

Partner closely with the Logs, APM, and RUM teams, plus Datadog’s Trust & Safety team, to align on roadmap and integration priorities

Shape product direction by working closely with Product, grounding decisions in customer needs and business impact

Stay hands-on: contribute to design decisions and participate in the team’s on-call rotation

Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers as the team grows beyond its initial size

Help build a strong engineering culture as part of Datadog’s broader Sensitive Data Scanner group

Who You Are

You have experience building and shipping revenue-generating products, with strong product acumen and a customer-first mindset

You have hands-on experience with Go and/or Java, and a track record building distributed, streaming systems at scale

You have experience managing engineers — or are ready