Manager I, Engineering - Cloud FinOps
Core
Lead a team building a platform that allocates Datadog's cloud costs to products and customers, ensuring reproducible history for Finance month-end close and Product cost-to-serve analysis.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Data Platform/FinOps)
Builds
A platform for cloud cost allocation, versioned metrics with effective dates, and reproducible historical data for Finance and Platform teams.
Domain
Cloud FinOps, Data Engineering, Observability
Required skills
Engineering leadership, data platform management, batch and pipeline systems, versioned publication with backfill, cross-team delivery commitments, domain expertise in metering/usage-based billing/cloud cost/revenue data, operating without a product manager, audit-ready systems (SOX scope)
Preferred skills
Experience with graph datasets, retrieval-grounded systems, AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor)
Technologies
AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor)
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team of engineers building the cost allocation platform; Own the publication contract with Finance for versioned metrics and reproducible history; Own metric contracts with platform teams to shift cost facts; Partner with Revenue Engineering on cost-to-revenue identity joins; Drive continuous improvement in cost coverage and accuracy; Reduce key-person risk and leverage AI tooling to raise team speed.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader with cross-team influence
