Senior Platform Product Manager - AI SDLC Trusted Throughput
Datadog · New York, United States · 4mo ago
As a Senior Platform Product Manager focused on AI SDLC Trusted Throughput, you will define and drive the product strategy for enabling safe, reliable software delivery at AI-native scale across Datadog’s Internal Developer Platform. As AI accelerates development velocity and system complexity, you will help evolve SDLC systems from human-supervised workflows to platforms with built-in safety, observability, and correctness guarantees. You will partner closely with engineering, security, and developer platform teams to improve deployment reliability, operational visibility, and governance while enabling both engineers and AI agents to move quickly with confidence. This role offers the opportunity to shape foundational developer infrastructure and influence how AI-powered software delivery operates across Datadog.
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:
- Own the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for AI-native SDLC throughput and reliability initiatives across Datadog’s Internal Developer Platform
- Define and drive platform outcomes aligned to DORA metrics, balancing deployment velocity with reliability, change failure reduction, and operational safety
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and developer experience teams to build automated validation, auditability, and risk-scoring capabilities into deployment workflows
- Deliver actionable SDLC observability and diagnostic capabilities that connect executive-level metrics to operational signals across the software delivery lifecycle
- Drive systems that monitor and validate AI-generated or AI-attributed changes to ensure correctness, compliance, and trustworthy automation
- Serve as a cross-functional product leader across SDLC Foundations, Security Engineering, and compliance, legal, privacy, and governance stakeholders
Who You Are:
- You have 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS Product Management or a related technical leadership role focused on developer platforms, infrastructure, or SDLC tooling
- You have experience defining, instrumenting, and operationalizing engineering performance and reliability metrics, including DORA metrics and deployment health indicators
- You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing highly technical stakeholders, including senior engineers and technical leadership
- You have a strong perspective on how AI is transforming software engineering workflows and understand the operational, reliability, and governance risks introduced by autonomous systems
- You are an effective communicator who can present complex technical concepts to engineering teams, cross-functional stakeholders, and executive audiences
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience
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.
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, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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