Forward Deployed Engineering Manager - Datadog for Startups is open at Datadog in New York, New York, USA; San Francisco, California, USA. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $250K. Posted on Jun 24, 2026, and still on Datadog’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Evolve and scale the FDE operating model end to end: engagement intake, scoping, sprint delivery, handoff back to account teams, and the success metrics (time-to-value, adoption lift, ARR influence, NPS) and reporting infrastructure that support them. Build out a catalog of FDE offerings spanning observability quickstarts, custom integration development, LLM/AI observability accelerators, CI/CD pipeline…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Datadog’s careers page.
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