About Datadog
We're on a mission to build the best observability 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
As a Staff Engineer on the New Workloads team, you will facilitate new product offerings by identifying opportunities, researching technologies, and bootstrapping initiatives. We are looking for someone who stays in touch with industry trends and demonstrates the ability to conduct deep research in novel areas. Additionally, you will need to execute quickly and efficiently on greenfield work while enhancing the effectiveness of your teammates.
This role is for a product-oriented engineer who can go beyond prototypes and take products from 1 to N, scaling our offerings to meet customer needs. Existing initiatives include GPU monitoring and granular monitoring for S3 buckets, with a deep product backlog of opportunities to explore, such as high-performance computing and infrastructure as code.
What You’ll Do
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Help research, design, and prototype product initiatives in new markets for Datadog and evaluate their opportunities
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Build, launch and operate products that have significant revenue potential for Datadog such as GPU Monitoring
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Act as a force multiplier for product development across the stack
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Collaborate with engineers and product managers across Datadog to build features that exceed our customers’ expectations across the product suite.
Who You Are
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You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
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10+ years of relevant engineering experience
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You have several years of experience leading cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment
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You have a product delivery oriented mindset and strong customer empathy
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You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems
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
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Competitive global benefits
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New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
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An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$234,000—$300,000 USD
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 an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Your Privacy:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.
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