Joblaze summary

The Director of Engineering for Graphing and Visualization at Datadog leads a global team focused on enhancing how users interact with complex data through intuitive visualizations and dashboards. This role requires a strong technical background in data-intensive products and experience in developing engineering leaders while collaborating closely with Product and Design teams. Ideal candidates are seasoned engineering leaders with a track record in visualization platforms and a keen interest in AI-driven interfaces. Datadog fosters a collaborative culture, emphasizing the importance of teamwork and creativity in a hybrid work environment.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 7, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page November 7, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,000).
Starts above 93% of 69 comparable director management roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $196,000 across 45 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
AI/ML appears in 19.2% of 558 comparable director management roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization role remote?: It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in New York, New York, United States.
What's the salary range?: Datadog lists $296,000–$370,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?: Datadog is hiring for this position in New York, New York, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Dashboards, Engineering Management, Notebooks, Search, data visualization.
What seniority level is this role?: Datadog targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization role at Datadog.

From the original posting

Graphing and Data Visualization is the organization responsible for how customers explore, analyze, and visualize complex data across our product. You will 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 will 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. This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialized engineering organization whose work reaches across the Datadog product while advancing how customers interact with increasingly complex data.

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 the systems, frameworks, and interfaces that enable teams across Datadog to build performant, consistent, and 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:

An 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, visualization platforms, analytics, business intelligence, notebooks, or other products where presenting complex information clearly is central to the user experience
A strong partner to Product and Design, with experience making technical and product decisions where usability, visual quality, and engineering architecture are closely connected
Technically grounded, with a computer science or equivalent technical background and the ability to engage deeply on software architecture, performance, and systems tradeoffs
Experience building performant product experiences and solving engineering challenges involving large or complex datasets, responsive interfaces, or computationally intensive workflows
Interested in how AI-assisted development and agent-based interfaces are changing the way users create, explore, and interact with software and data

Benefits and Growth:

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+
Competitive global benefits

#LI-Hybrid

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.

$296,000—$370,000 USD

About Datadog:

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Director, Engineering - Graphing and Visualization

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