Job Description
About Datadog:
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems applications and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting metrics visualization logs and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism honesty and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
The Opportunity:
Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways:
As individual contributors they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization virtual runtime profiling and planet scale streaming.
As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization charting the right course then leading delivery.
In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering.
Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second being the lead engineer building a new product like synthetics or profiling or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale.
What You'll Do:
- Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
- Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
- Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale
Who You Are:
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience either as a manager or technical leader
- You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a company’s engineering org
- You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate critique and refine AI-generated output.
- Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
- Generous global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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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.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation cloud migration and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers for engineers Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together we champion professional development diversity of thought innovation and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative pragmatic and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems take smart risks and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram LinkedIn and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity veteran status and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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What We Do
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation cloud migration and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers for engineers Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together we champion professional development diversity of thought innovation and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative pragmatic and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems take smart risks and celebrate one another.
Why Work With Us
At Datadog we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems innovate pragmatically and grow together. We promote from within provide mentorship and opportunities for career development and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.
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04/19/2026
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