Software Engineer

Datadog is building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

As a Software Engineer at Datadog, you'll be working on critical projects and solving complex problems at high scale. You'll be part of a fast-growing startup environment that respects its engineers and customers. Your responsibilities will include solving scaling bottlenecks, deploying new features, investigating and fixing production issues, designing scalable architectures, and planning important projects with your team.

We're looking for candidates with significant experience in one or more programming languages, who value code simplicity and performance, and can design architecture to solve problems at high scale. A BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience is desired.

Datadog offers competitive benefits including new hire stock equity (RSUs), employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), continuous professional development, product training, career pathing, and an inclusive company culture. We also provide global mental health benefits, intradepartmental mentor programs, and access to Inclusion Talks.

Join us at Datadog, where we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Be part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.