--- title: 'Technical Program Manager II at Datadog' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-program-manager-ii-datadog-new-york-new-york-ft9cn1q92gtp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Technical Program Manager II at Datadog - **Company:** Datadog - **Location:** New York New York, United States - **Compensation:** $146k–$182k - **Posted:** 2026-08-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://careers.datadoghq.com/detail/8144018/?gh_jid=8144018 ## Job description TPMs at Datadog see the problems hiding between teams, engineer away the work that shouldn’t require humans, and drive the company’s most technically complex and consequential bets to completion. ## About the Role Technical Program Management at Datadog operates at the intersection of engineering depth and organizational reach by driving high priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex and consequential for any single team to own. We partner with engineering on solving deeply technical problems at scale by connecting the people, decisions, and context to move Datadog's most important work forward. We build the systems and automation that make entire classes of program work self-executing. We are in the architecture conversation early, earning trust through technical judgment. We use AI to surface risks earlier, accelerate program execution plans, and find cross-team patterns that would otherwise stay hidden. The faster teams move, the more essential it is to have someone who can operate across them. ## What we expect These are the expectations we hold for every TPM at Datadog. - Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy; knowing how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope and impact of those failures. AI brings more complexity into the picture - the technical bar is higher, not lower. - Build the systems that reduce the need for coordination - Identify what matters before anyone asks, and automate the rest - Engineer program lifecycles end-to-end - See what no single team can see and own the solution - Drive the company's most technically complex and consequential bets through cross-functional agreement, organizational visibility, and influence - Build AI powered automation tools and deploy them at every stage of program execution ## What you will do See Across: Identify What No Single Team Can See - Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions - Proactively surface systemic risks, cross-pod dependencies, and organizational friction before they become escalations - Build and maintain SVP-level visibility through tracked KPIs on Datadog’s highest-priority initiatives - Uses technical credibility, trusted relationships, and product domain expertise to bridge the gaps between functions where misalignment is expensive Engineer Away: Automate What Shouldn’t Require Humans - Identify repeatable program archetypes and engineer the lifecycle end-to-end with AI solutions; the goal is to make the program run itself - Build automation that reduces the need for coordination, eliminating program overhead so engineers and PMs spend time only on work requiring human judgment - Contribute to the TPM toolkit: AI-powered risk synthesis, dependency tracking, stakeholder mapping, and program templates - Drive the shift from manual coordination to self-executing program infrastructure Drive Completion: Move The Company’s Most Complex Bets Forward - Lead programs across four archetypes: deep technical, large cross-functional, product delivery, and operational - Accelerate alignment by removing friction and overhead, not by adding process. - Hold the judgment call on when to escalate, when to slow down, when a technical decision has organizational implications - Own outcomes, not activities - your value is measured by what ships and what never had the chance to become a problem ## What we are looking for Required - 3+ years of technical program management at a high-growth technology company - Demonstrated ability to drive large, ambiguous, cross-functional programs to completion with minimal direction - Engineering credibility earned through hands-on experience with technically complex domains — observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML systems including model training pipelines, ML infrastructure, and GPU compute. You can go deep on architecture and system design, push back on technical decisions, and hold your own in the room with staff engineers and senior ICs. - Track record of earning trust with senior engineering and product leadership - not through title, through judgment - Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable owning the narrative at VP+ levels - Active AI practitioner, you use AI tools in your daily work and can demonstrate how they’ve changed your leverage - You have built something, a tool, a template, an automated workflow, that other people use Strong Signal - You identified a systemic problem no one asked you to find and built the operating system to solve it - You automated a program lifecycle or workflow that previously required manual coordination - You have operated in observability, infrastructure, data platforms, or AI/ML environments and can speak to the technical architecture, not just the program execution - You have managed programs with real unit economics implications - cloud cost, capacity, margin Datadog Benefits - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Assigned TPM mentor and engineering buddy program for learning and relationship building - An inclusive company culture, active Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups), in-person team summits, local office programming - Competitive global benefits; free, mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ 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. Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $145,600—$182,000 USD 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. 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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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