Software Engineer - Data & Analytics

We are building out a first-class Data & Analytics department composed of Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Analysts, Analytics Engineers, and Data Scientists. If you’re excited to work on a fast-moving team using cutting-edge open-source technologies to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data, we want to meet you.

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:

• Ship and process data at scale using Spark, Iceberg, and other open-source technologies, with programming languages like Scala, Python, and SQL

• Work on making customer data, gathered by Datadog different products coming from internally managed datastores, available in a centralized space that will enable users to query across Datadog products and customers

• Optimize queries on very large telemetry data to improve user experience

• Build Data Observability tooling to ensure trust in our data

• Ensure high data privacy standards around data retention and permissions

• Contribute to the data models and metadata used by thousands of users across Datadog teams

• Work closely with every department at Datadog to collect business-critical data and power decision making across the company

Who You Are: 

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience

• You are fluent in several programming languages, such as Python, R, or Scala, and are a SQL expert

• You’ve built production ETL pipelines at scale using Spark, Hadoop, or a similar distributed framework and enjoy wrangling large amounts of data in different domains

• You’ve worked with data stores, data warehouses and/or query engines, such as AWS S3, Snowflake, or Trino

• You have a natural curiosity and an investigative mindset; you’re driven by the “why”

• You’re able to explain advanced technical concepts in a simple manner and cater to your audience  

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:

• Competitive global benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

• 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.

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