--- title: 'Manager I, Engineering - Client SDKs (Mobile & Browser) at Datadog' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/manager-i-engineering-client-sdks-mobile-browser-datadog-madrid-07djetk8aty9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Manager I, Engineering - Client SDKs (Mobile & Browser) at Datadog - **Company:** Datadog - **Location:** Madrid, Spain / Paris, France - **Posted:** 2026-11-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8358479/?gh_jid=8358479 ## Job description Datadog's client SDKs run inside our customers' mobile apps and websites, and every Datadog client-side product depends on them, including Real User Monitoring, Session Replay, Product Analytics, and Feature Flags. We maintain 11 open source SDKs across Browser, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, Unity, and more. As the Engineering Manager for Client SDKs, you'll build and lead the team that makes it easy for any team at Datadog to ship into those SDKs safely: fast CI, predictable releases, a shared spec across SDKs, and tooling that lets engineers and coding agents contribute without waiting on a review queue. It's a rare chance to own a developer platform that ships in public, at a scale where small decisions reach a lot of customers, and to shape how Datadog builds client-side products in the AI-native era. Both the team and its scope are expanding, so there's plenty of room to grow. 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: - Build, lead, and grow a team of mostly senior software engineers, hiring well and helping senior and staff engineers grow their impact and careers - Own CI and test infrastructure across the SDK repositories: set health targets, detect and quarantine flaky tests, and provide test frameworks that engineers and coding agents can run locally - Define release cadences and help customers adopt updates, managing breaking changes in SDKs that can't be rolled back once they're installed in customers' apps - Keep SDKs consistent through a shared specification, and remove the review bottleneck so product teams can ship SDK changes without waiting on a small group of experts - Partner with product teams such as Session Replay, Product Analytics, and Feature Flags, along with our SDK guilds and server SDK teams, to guide SDK changes from design to release - Build feature sets for new product capabilities and bring that to all partner teams - Bring AI coding agents into how the team builds, tests, and ships, and take part in business-hours release, hotfix, and support escalation duty (no 24/7 pager) Who You Are: - Experienced in managing a team of software engineers, including senior engineers - Someone who has shipped and maintained SDKs, libraries, or developer tools that other engineers depend on - Strong in at least one of Mobile Platforms, including iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin) , or Browser (TypeScript), and able to hold a technical conversation about applications development. - Knowledgeable in release engineering, CI/CD, versioning, and backwards compatibility - Able to influence other teams without formal authority and build alignment across product teams Nice to Have: - Open source maintainer experience, especially working with outside contributors - Experience with observability, crash reporting, analytics, or OpenTelemetry SDKs - Familiarity with cross-platform frameworks such as React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform - Experience leading a platform or developer experience team - Experience using AI coding agents in your team's workflow Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. Benefits and Growth: - 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 - An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) - Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions - Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ - Competitive global benefits Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-Hybrid About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en), [LinkedIn,](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog) and [Datadog Learning Center.](https://learn.datadoghq.com/) Equal Opportunity at Datadog: Datadog is proud to offer [equal employment opportunity](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our [Candidate Legal Notices](https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/candidate-legal-notices/) for your reference. Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoJeduEZ2NdZF_65uZmWUrCM-zee7yADXX1s6Xr9zAGq8iKA/viewform). This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s [Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/). For information on our AI policy, please visit [Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines](https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/). ## About Datadog ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Datadog provides a unified cloud monitoring and security platform for developers, IT operations, and business teams to gain end-to-end visibility across their entire technology stack. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: DDOG) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States - **Founded**: 2010 - **Founders**: Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Cloud monitoring, observability, application security, IT operations, DevOps - **Target customers**: B2B – from SMBs to large enterprises, serving developers, IT operations, security teams, and business users - **Mission/purpose**: “We are building the modern monitoring and security platform for developers, IT operations teams and business users in the cloud age.” [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/) ## Products & Services - **Infrastructure Monitoring**: Metrics collection and visualization for servers, containers, cloud services, and hybrid environments. - **APM (Application Performance Monitoring)**: Trace and optimize application performance end-to-end. - **Log Management**: Centralized log ingestion, analysis, and exploration with sensitive data scanning and audit trail. - **Security**: Unified security and observability – including Cloud SIEM, Application Security Management, and runtime detection to defend against AI-powered attacks. [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/product/security/) - **Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)**: Synthetic monitoring (browser & API tests) and Real User Monitoring (RUM) for frontend performance. - **Bits AI**: AI agents that chat, investigate, and remediate issues; includes Watchdog for proactive anomaly detection. - **Network Monitoring**: Analyze network traffic patterns across cloud environments. - **Service Management** and **Software Delivery**: Incident response, workflow automation, CI Visibility, DORA Metrics, and OpenTelemetry support. - **Database Monitoring** and **Data Streams Monitoring**: Deep visibility into databases and streaming pipelines. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: ~$39.9 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog) - **Key Metric**: FY2025 annual revenue of $3.43 billion [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (led Series C), with total funding of ~$1.67 billion including IPO proceeds. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog) - **Growth Signals**: - Recognized as a Leader in the **Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms** and for **Digital Experience Monitoring**; also named a Leader in **The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q2 2025**. [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/) - Headcount grew to approximately **10,100 employees** by April 2026 (up from ~8,100+ reported earlier). [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026) - Maintains a strong Glassdoor rating of **4.2/5.0**, with ~80% of employees recommending to a friend. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026) ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified platform**: Combines infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, and security in a single solution – reducing tool sprawl. - **AI-native capabilities**: Bits AI agents and Watchdog provide automated root-cause analysis, remediation, and proactive insights. - **Industry recognition**: Consistently placed as a Leader in multiple analyst quadrants (Gartner, Forrester), validating product quality and market presence. - **Scale and ecosystem**: 700+ integrations, a rich marketplace, and broad support for OpenTelemetry and other open standards. ## Strategic Focus - **AI and automation**: Deep investment in AI-driven features (Bits AI, Watchdog, automated remediation) to reduce toil and improve mean-time-to-resolution. - **Security observability**: Extending the platform to unify security and observability – a key differentiator as threats become more complex. - **Global expansion**: Growing employee presence across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific (53 countries) to serve a widening customer base. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/) ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Transparent, inclusive, and engineering-driven. Diversity and inclusion are core values, with active Employee Resource Groups. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/) - **Flexibility**: Operates a flexible work environment supporting remote, hybrid, and office cultures – “Innovation happens everywhere”. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/) - **Benefits**: Generous benefits tailored by region, covering physical, mental, and financial wellness. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/) - **Growth**: 454 open positions globally (as of mid-2026) across engineering, sales, product, marketing, and technical solutions – with opportunities to work on cutting-edge observability and AI challenges. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026) - **Ratings**: CEO Olivier Pomel enjoys ~87% approval; overall Glassdoor rating is 4.2/5.0 (Work-Life 3.8, Compensation 3.9, Culture 4.0). [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026) ## Sources 1. [datadoghq.com](https://www.datadoghq.com/) 2. [careers.datadoghq.com](https://careers.datadoghq.com/) 3. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-datadog-2026) 4. 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