Manager I, Engineering - Sensitive Data Scanner

<p>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.</p> <p><em>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.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead and grow a team of engineers building real-time sensitive data detection across Datadog’s Logs, APM, and RUM telemetry pipelines</li> <li>Partner closely with the Logs, APM, and RUM teams, plus Datadog’s Trust &amp; Safety team, to align on roadmap and integration priorities</li> <li>Shape product direction by working closely with Product, grounding decisions in customer needs and business impact</li> <li>Stay hands-on: contribute to design decisions and participate in the team’s on-call rotation</li> <li>Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers as the team grows beyond its initial size</li> <li>Help build a strong engineering culture as part of Datadog’s broader Sensitive Data Scanner group</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have experience building and shipping revenue-generating products, with strong product acumen and a customer-first mindset</li> <li>You have hands-on experience with Go and/or Java, and a track record building distributed, streaming systems at scale</li> <li>You have experience managing engineers — or are ready to step into your first formal management role — and know how to set goals, give feedback, and help a team grow</li> <li>You measure success through customer and business outcomes, not just output shipped</li> <li>You’re comfortable weighing tradeoffs between speed and correctness, ideally from experience in a fast-moving environment</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>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’r