Manager I, Engineering - CodeGen
Datadog’s CodeGen team builds systems that use AI to read, understand, generate, and safely change real code — powering automated fixes, CI/PR automation, agentic remediation, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows. The team ties code understanding to observability so assistants can explain problems and produce safe, aud
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Manager I, Engineering - CodeGen at Datadog in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Datadog’s CodeGen team builds systems that use AI to read, understand, generate, and safely change real code — powering automated fixes, CI/PR automation, agentic remediation, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows. The team ties code understanding to observability so assistants can explain problems and produce safe, aud
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- Lead a team of engineers responsible for building production systems that enable code understanding and automated code changes — from parsers and telemetry ingestion to model serving, evaluation, and PR automation.
- Drive technical direction and execution: set a clear roadmap, prioritize work, remove blockers, and raise quality and reliability bar for codegen features (safety, correctness, performance).
- Partner with product, applied research, infra/SRE, security, and other engineering teams to ship end-to-end experiences that safely apply model outputs (PRs, CI checks, automated apply flows).
- Build and maintain robust evaluation and monitoring pipelines (offline and online) to measure model quality, drift, and downstream correctness of code changes.
- Own hiring, performance development, 1:1s, and career growth for your reports; grow a high-performing, inclusive team.
- Be accountable for production readiness: on-call expectations, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs, and operational playbooks for codegen services.
What a strong candidate brings
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- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
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- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
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