Senior Product Manager - APM SDKs & Configuration Management

At Datadog, we're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale-trillions of data points per day-allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) aims at providing critical insights into the life-cycle, performance and health of modern applications with distributed tracing from end-user (browser and mobile applications) to backend services. You will work with a team of Product Managers and Engineers to enable our customers to detect root causes faster, optimize application performance and resource consumption for thousands of users around the world.
As a Product Manager for APM SDKs & Configuration Management experience, you will define the core capabilities for creating span operations and external APIs for auto and custom instrumentation. You will also work on unlocking new capabilities such as API/IaC access, fine grained configuration controls, and more.
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:

• Define the strategy for our SDKs to support a variety of Datadog products, including APM, Profiling, Application Security, and others.
• Evaluate and launch tracing support for new languages, such as Rust.
• Develop a strategy to expand APM SDK support beyond tracing to include metrics and logs.
• Craft the strategy for APM configuration management, unlocking new capabilities like remote configuration, API/IaC integration, granular configuration controls, feature flagging, and more.
• Develop a deep understanding of Application Performance Monitoring customers, use cases, and competitors
• Collaborate with other Product teams in Datadog to improve Datadog products correlation in order to help customers identify incidents root cause and navigate through telemetry faster
• Partner with marketing and cross functional teams including sales, customer success and support teams, to define Go-To-Market plans and strategy for APM features

Who You Are:

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager (ideally working on APIs, SDKs, or client libraries)
• You have 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or an equivalent experience and possess a deep interest, understanding, and knowledge in software development
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to technical stakeholders and executives alike
• You are customer focused with high quality standards for your products
• You are passionate to work in a high growth and impact environment to build new
  products and scaling existing ones

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits & Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global Spring 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.

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:
$187,000 - $240,000 USD
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
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