The Core Analytics Team is responsible for delivering analytics, data products, and insights across all of Datadog. We support various business functions, including Go-to-Market, Strategy, Customer Success, Community, Product Management, and Engineering.
As a Staff Engineer, you will drive and collaborate on projects spanning the entire scope of Core Analytics. You will make key technical decisions related to data pipeline creation, data modeling, storage, and governance tooling.
You’ll also partner with other organizations such as DNA Platform and AI Platform, to support cross-organizational initiatives, including feature stores, model evaluation, data pipelines, and governance.
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.
What You’ll Do:
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Design and implement high-value, high-visibility projects, navigating ambiguity and guiding other engineers.
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Provide technical leadership across one or more areas of the platform.
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Lead and mentor engineers through architectural and platform decisions.
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Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them.
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Contribute to prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in both short-term and long-term planning and roadmaps.
Who You Are:
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You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience
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You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years.
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You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns.
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You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale.
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You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become even stronger.
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Experienced in building and high volume and reliable data pipelines for real customers in production systems
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Fluent in several programming languages (JVM & otherwise)
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Skilled in wrangling huge amounts of data and enjoy exploring new data sets
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Someone who values code simplicity and performance
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Interested in working in a fast-paced, high growth environment that respects its engineers and customers
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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New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
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Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
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Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
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An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
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Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
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Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
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Competitive global benefits
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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