Director, Engineering - Cloud Cost Monitoring

FinOps Cloud Cost Director Engineering Product Development
We’re looking for someone with strong management experience, a background in computer science, and experience building 0->1 products. You should understand cloud pricing models, either because you’ve been responsible for the bill in the past or because you were building a product where it was relevant knowledge. You have a solid track record of getting things done, coaching and growing team members, and communicating effectively with stakeholders. Experience managing distributed teams is essential.

What You’ll Do:

- Work closely with a product partner to iterate on Datadog’s Cloud Cost Management offering
- Collaborate across your team to plan, execute, measure, and iterate on new and existing features
- Move fast, using sound technical judgment to make trade offs as needed
- Coach and effectively manage new and experienced engineering managers
- Partner with peers to further integrate cost data features across our platform
- Learn our platform, reuse components where you can, drive the development of new capabilities, and build platform-like solutions when warranted

Who You Are:

- An experienced product engineering manager with successes and failures under their belt, and are excited about building and scaling new products
- Someone who has built 0-1 products - experience in a startup environment where you have had to ability to drive product direction would be very attractive
- You have a deep understanding of the balance between velocity and compromise in feature development, and have worked with varied stakeholders (Finance, Engineering)
- You’ve built a team before, you’ve grown direct reports into your peers and have effectively managed high and low performers
- You’re curious, you care about the quality of your work and the health of your team, and you are ambitious
- Experience with financial products or cost-measuring products would be very helpful
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience
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Salary: $272,000 - $340,000
Location: New York, NY
Remote: n/a
Company: Datadog
Posted: 2025-05-08

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