Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization
Datadog · New York, New York, USA
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**Director, Engineering — Graphing and Visualization** ## About the role Graphing and Data Visualization is responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across the Datadog product. You’ll lead a global team spanning graphing, dashboards, data visualization, notebooks, search experiences, and emerging AI-powered interfaces—partnering closely with Product and Design to make complex data intuitive and actionable. You’ll shape the technical and organizational strategy for experiences that help a broad range of users work effectively with their data, including new ways for AI agents to create consistent, high-quality Datadog experiences. ## What you’ll do - Lead the Graphing and Data Visualization engineering organization, setting technical and organizational direction across graphing, dashboards, notebooks, search, data visualization, and related data exploration experiences - Develop engineering leaders and senior engineers across a large organization, building an environment that supports strong technical execution, collaboration, and continued growth - Partner closely with Product and Design to make complex, high-volume data understandable and actionable for users with different needs and technical backgrounds - Guide the evolution of systems, frameworks, and interfaces that enable teams across Datadog to build performant, consistent, high-quality data visualization experiences - Advance AI-powered product experiences by enabling agents and conversational interfaces to reliably create graphs, visualizations, and dynamic data experiences - Influence product and engineering strategy across Datadog by bringing deep expertise in visualization, performance, user experience, and large-scale product engineering ## Who you are - Experienced engineering leader who has led a large, multi-team engineering organization and developed engineering managers and senior technical leaders - Experience leading engineering teams responsible for data-intensive products (e.g., visualization platforms, analytics/BI, notebooks, or similar) - Strong partner to Product and Design, with experience making technical and product decisions where usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture are tightly connected - Technically grounded (CS or equivalent), able to engage deeply on software architecture, performance, and systems tradeoffs - Experience building performant product experiences and solving engineering challenges involving large/complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computationally intensive workflows - Interested in how AI-assisted development and agent-based interfaces are changing how users create, explore, and interact with software and data ## Culture & work style - Hybrid workplace - Datadog values office culture, collaboration, and creativity ## Benefits & growth (highlights) - New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) - Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing - Mentor and buddy program for in-house networking - Inclusive culture and Community Guilds (employee resource groups) - Inclusion Talks (internal panel discussions) - Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ - Competitive global benefits (may vary by country) ## Compensation (estimated) - **$296,000 — $370,000 USD** (yearly salary range) - May include variable compensation; actual compensation depends on skills, qualifications, and experience ## About D
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