Director, Engineering
Datadog
Datadog's Tel Aviv engineering site builds across some of our fastest-moving product areas — from Product Analytics, to Universal Service Monitoring, to Security Monitoring, to the Software Delivery tools that help engineers everywhere ship and operate software safely. It's a site with real engineering depth, and we're investing in the on-site senior leadership to match it.
- Location
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Work model
- hybrid
- Seniority
- director
- Source checked
- October 18, 2026
▣ Role summary
Datadog's Tel Aviv engineering site builds across some of our fastest-moving product areas — from Product Analytics, to Universal Service Monitoring, to Security Monitoring, to the Software Delivery tools that help engineers everywhere ship and operate software safely. It's a site with real engineering depth, and we're investing in the on-site senior leadership to match it.
▮ Aptiora signal profile
✦ Why this role matters
- Work on a core product area for the next era of AI.
- Direct impact on how people discover, interact with, or benefit from technology.
- Bridge product ambition with research and infrastructure reality.
◔ What the employer asks for
- You are a product-building leader with real product sense, comfortable working hand in hand with product and design to decide what to build, not just how to build it
- You came up through engineering and can earn the trust of senior engineers in a fast conversation; you favor breadth and adaptability, and you can ramp quickly into a technical domain you didn't start in
- You integrate AI into how you lead and how your teams build, treating AI-first thinking as core engineering practice rather than a feature bolted onto the product
- You have hired, grown, and developed engineering teams, creating long-term plans for people's growth and motivation
- You have managed managers — you've hired, coached, and developed engineering managers, and led an organization with multiple layers of leadership beneath you
- You have operated in multi-geography companies at scale, and you can read and work effectively across different sites and company cultures
- You want to be the senior engineering leader on the ground in Tel Aviv — setting the technical and cultural bar, and building a site rather than inheriting a finished one
- You have a customer-focused mindset and a relentless drive to build products that address real needs
- You bring real depth in at least one of our areas — web and product analytics, agentic or developer-experience products, low-level systems and networking, or security engineering
△ Where the uncertainty is
- Exact team size, reporting line, and near-term mandate are not fully visible from the public posting.
- Compensation, equity, or leveling details are not explicit yet.
- Onsite and hybrid expectations may matter more than the headline location suggests.
- The balance between research, product, and infrastructure responsibilities may still be broad.
♛ Evidence this role rewards
- Hands-on comfort with modern AI or multimodal product stacks.
- Leadership experience in fast-moving or high-ownership teams.
- Track record of turning complex ideas into shipped products.
◎ Why Aptiora keeps this on the radar
Aptiora is not asking whether the role sounds impressive. It asks whether the posting contains enough scope, evidence, leverage, and unresolved questions to deserve your attention. This public page organizes the opportunity; personalized fit begins inside My Aptiora.
▮ Aptiora decision signals
- The role shows strong leverage rather than generic volume hiring.
- The posting contains enough substantive detail to justify deeper analysis inside Aptiora.
- Public evidence is still not the same as your personal fit or decision quality.
☑ What to verify before acting
- Team mission, size, and what success looks like in the first months.
- Reporting structure, level expectations, and decision authority.
- Whether the real scope is product, research, infrastructure, or a blend.
- Working model, compensation, equity, and interview process.
Benefits noted: 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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