Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We bring together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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Software Engineering Intern

Product Analytics aims to help developers, product managers and designers understand their users, take data-oriented product decisions and evaluate the impact of technical issues on their customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Analytics Backend team, you'll join a new, fast-growing product area. You will help define our technical vision, influence the product roadmap, and solve complex engineering challenges at scale. In Product Analytics, we consume and process data from multiple sources: clickstreams, user information, and data from third-party systems. Your work will be central to building a robust and flexible system that can ingest, manipulate, correlate and store all this data to have it efficiently queried by our end users. 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. &nbsp; What You’ll Do:&nbsp; Design, build, and maintain core backend systems for Product Analytics, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance&nbsp; Drive technical architecture decisions in alignment with product goals and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams&nbsp; Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and query solutions to our needs Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus Participate in hands-on engineering work including coding, code reviews, and design reviews &nbsp; Who You Are:&nbsp; A seasoned backend engineer with deep expertise in designing and building distributed systems&nbsp; Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct management authority, operating as a technical leader and mentor&nbsp; Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle&nbsp; You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners&nbsp; Strong technician, particularly with Go, Java or SQL, who is interested in remaining a hands-on contributor You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how 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.&nbsp; &nbsp; Benefits and Growth:&nbsp; New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ 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. About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

Senior Backend Software Engineer - Product Analytics

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.&nbsp; 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. &nbsp; The team:The Core Observability team at Datadog ensures our internal observability use cases are met with reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency—leveraging our own platform at Datadog scale. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll operate as a senior technical leader with broad, cross-functional impact. You’ll architect resilient and scalable observability systems, influence product direction, and drive multi-team initiatives that benefit both internal stakeholders and external customers. This role offers the opportunity to shape long-term observability strategy, elevate engineering quality across the organization, and mentor other senior engineers in a high-scale, pragmatic environment. &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; What You’ll Do:&nbsp; Translate organization-wide observability needs into actionable technical strategies that influence product roadmaps and engineering priorities. Lead delivery of complex, multi-org initiatives—from problem framing through production deployment—at global scale. Architect resilient, scalable solutions to cross-org challenges including disaster recovery, telemetry ingestion, and multi-region readiness. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams to align observability practices, improve internal platforms, and shape roadmap direction. Improve operational excellence company-wide by refining SLOs, on-call processes, automation, and runbooks to reduce risk and improve reliability. Act as the senior technical authority for all telemetry production and consumption, guiding long-term strategy and alignment. Mentor senior engineers, influence design principles, and elevate technical standards across the Core Observability domain. &nbsp; Who You Are:&nbsp; 8+ years of experience in software or systems engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed systems. Deep expertise in observability domains including metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and reliability frameworks. Proven operational experience owning or building critical infrastructure, including on-call participation. Skilled at navigating ambiguity and turning complex technical or organizational challenges into clear action plans. Experienced in leading long-term architectural transformations and cross-org technical initiatives. Strong communicator with the ability to build alignment and understanding across diverse technical and non-technical audiences. Highly autonomous and impact-driven, with a track record of identifying and solving high-leverage problems without needing direction. &nbsp; 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.&nbsp; &nbsp; Benefits and Growth: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ 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. About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

Staff Software Engineer, Core Observability

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—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Team: Logs are critical to ensuring the availability, security/compliance and performance of modern applications, but as log volumes grow exponentially year over year, realizing value from the mountain of data becomes increasingly difficult and expensive. Datadog’s Log Management is a next generation, AI-first log warehousing and analytics product, committed to giving our customers the fastest, most-flexible, and easy to use log exploration experience - from event generation to query - while helping them maintain a healthy budget even as their log volumes are exploding with rise in AI focused development.&nbsp; The Opportunity: The Senior PM - Flex Logs role is responsible for defining and bringing to market the next generation of log retention and access capabilities on top of our modern Third-Generation Event Store in an AI-first environment. This role is highly technical and creative in nature as you will envision novel ways to enable customers to cost-effectively explore, analyze and report over petabytes of data through a welcoming and easy-to-use interface. You will partner with various teams to take advantage of BitsAI capabilities and surface critical insights on volume usage and retention for popular use cases. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Define the vision, strategy, and product roadmap for Flex Logs and make it immediately valuable to customers in an AI-first environment Gather insights from customers, partners, and internal data to become an expert on how customers want to store, analyze, and report on data for long term needs Work closely with Datadog’s Platform, BitsAI, and SIEM teams to identify opportunities and build capabilities for dynamic data tiering strategies Collaborate with Engineering to surface insights and utilization metrics for Flex Logs to help customers make better decisions on their Flex Storage and Compute usage Recommend and launch new offerings with Flex Logs based on use cases for Security and Compliance Partner with Marketing and other GTM teams to generate awareness and drive adoption of Datadog’s Flex Logs offering Guide Product Solution Architects to write blogs and how-to guides on getting started with Flex Logs for specific use cases and industry verticals Who You Are:&nbsp; A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS Product Management At least 2+ years of experience with databases, data warehouses, SQL concepts &amp; language, BI products, and/or distributed systems Hands on experience using multiple services from one or more of the major cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud) Demonstrated track record of shipping successful data reporting and data workflow product offerings in the cloud Prior experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Splunk, or ClickHouse is a strong plus Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know 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 experience, we encourage you to apply.&nbsp; Benefits &amp; Growth: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions Free, global Spring Health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ 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. &nbsp;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:$187,000&mdash;$240,000 USD About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

Senior Product Manager - Flex Logs

Datadog’s Cloud Foundations group is seeking a Staff Engineer to help scale and evolve the critical infrastructure services that power our global platform. This is a high-impact role with the flexibility to focus on one of two key areas: elevating reliability practices across engineering teams, or driving the evolution of internal infrastructure from pure delivery to a user-centric platform approach. You’ll partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional peers to shape how Datadog provisions, secures, and scales our cloud environments—whether through hands-on architectural design, process transformation, or internal product development. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. &nbsp; What You’ll Do: Act as a&nbsp; technical leader to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure systems Collaborate directly with engineering teams to audit, refine, and elevate reliability and operational practices across Cloud Foundations Contribute deeply to the architecture and implementation of high-leverage infrastructure components, especially around cloud identity, resource provisioning, and secure access Help lead the shift from infrastructure delivery to a platform and internal product model, bringing clarity to user needs and surfacing high-impact opportunities Work with cross-functional partners to define golden paths, self-service capabilities, and guardrails that reduce toil while preserving security and performance Engage in collaborative technical design and mentorship across a distributed organization of engineers &nbsp; Who You Are: Experienced staff-level engineer with a track record of technical leadership in infrastructure, reliability engineering, or platform development Skilled at partnering with teams to improve engineering processes and shipping high-quality code that supports reliability goals Comfortable navigating and influencing across domains, including engineering, product, and technical program management Strong background working with at least one major cloud provider; bonus if you’ve worked across multiple (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) Proficient with Kubernetes and familiar with operating infrastructure in production at scale Comfortable learning new tools and systems; able to balance hands-on implementation with broader strategic thinking 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. &nbsp; Benefits and Growth: Generous and competitive benefits package New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan Continuous career development and pathing opportunities Employee-focused best in class onboarding Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program Friendly and inclusive workplace culture 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&mdash;$300,000 USD About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Foundations

The eBPF APM team builds Datadog’s zero-instrumentation observability platform, enabling automatic service discovery, Layer 7 protocol classification, traffic decoding, and high-fidelity RED (requests, errors, duration) metrics from both plaintext and TLS-encrypted traffic—without requiring customer code changes. This work spans kernel-space eBPF, user-space Go services, and large-scale distributed systems, operating reliably across diverse Linux kernels, distributions, runtimes, and real-world production environments. The team tackles challenges in protocol evolution, TLS detection across languages and frameworks, and performance-critical data collection at scale. We are looking for a Staff Engineer who will act as a technical owner and multiplier—driving architecture, influencing the roadmap, and ensuring our APM platform remains robust, scalable, and easy to adopt as Datadog and our customers grow. At Datadog, Staff Engineers are expected to deliver impact through technical leadership, not just individual contribution. This role offers the opportunity to shape a foundational observability product used at massive scale. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing in-person collaboration while supporting work-life balance. 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. &nbsp; What You’ll Do: Own major technical areas of the zero-instrumentation APM system, from design through long-term evolution and operational maturity Define and drive architecture for kernel-level traffic capture, L7 protocol decoding, and metric extraction using eBPF and Go Lead high-impact initiatives addressing protocol parsing, TLS visibility, kernel compatibility, and performance at scale Set technical direction and standards for reliability, performance, and maintainability across the team Partner cross-functionally with Agent, Tracing, Security, Runtime, and Product teams to align on system design and roadmap priorities &nbsp; Who You Are:&nbsp; You have deep experience in backend or systems engineering, with strong proficiency in Go and/or C/C++ You are comfortable operating close to the Linux kernel, with experience in eBPF, networking, observability, or similarly low-level systems You consistently think at a system and organizational scale, making thoughtful tradeoffs between performance, correctness, velocity, and long-term sustainability You have built, evolved, or operated large-scale production systems in complex and heterogeneous environments You demonstrate technical leadership without relying on authority—you influence architecture, unblock teams, and raise the technical bar through collaboration You have a strong bias for performance, efficiency, and reliability, especially in resource-constrained or performance-sensitive contexts You thrive in ambiguity and take ownership of ill-defined, high-impact problems You are excited to leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, and system design - or are eager to learn 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.&nbsp; &nbsp; Benefits and Growth: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ 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. About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

Staff Software Engineer - Linux/Kernel

Datadog’s Platform &amp; Developer Experience teams build the foundational tools and systems that support every part of our product. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll design and maintain shared UI libraries, build pipelines, design systems, and developer tooling that hundreds of engineers rely on daily. You’ll work closely with frontend engineers across the company to understand their day-to-day workflows, identify pain points, and uncover opportunities for new features and improvements. Through this collaboration, your work will improve reliability, performance, and engineering velocity at scale, while helping shape how frontend code is written, tested, and shipped company-wide. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. To give you a quick overview of some of the areas our frontend core teams focus on: our Design Ops team works on our design system, Druids; our Frontend DevX team builds the foundations that all frontend product teams at Datadog rely on; and our Frontend Framework team owns Datadog’s core frontend platform, powering the UI, toolkit, packages, and more. 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:&nbsp; Design and implement core frontend platform components including shared UI libraries, build systems, and performance tooling Develop and maintain internal developer tools that accelerate engineering workflows and promote consistency Lead architectural decisions for frontend infrastructure with a focus on scalability and developer experience Establish and promote best practices for testing, accessibility, performance, and frontend standards Build CI/CD tooling, local development environments, and automation that support fast and reliable code delivery Mentor engineers and serve as a technical leader for frontend tooling and platform design Who You Are: You have 6+ years of experience building large-scale frontend systems, ideally in platform or developer experience roles You’re an expert in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks such as React You have deep experience with modern frontend build tools, bundlers (e.g., Rspack, esbuild, Lage), and CI/CD workflows You’ve built internal tools, component libraries, or design systems for large engineering organizations You can lead cross-team initiatives and influence adoption of platform standards You’re focused on reliability, performance, and enabling efficient developer workflows via thoughtful developer experience 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.&nbsp; Benefits and Growth:&nbsp; Generous and competitive benefits package New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan Continuous career development and pathing opportunities Employee-focused best in class onboarding Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program Friendly and inclusive workplace culture Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Platform & Developer Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Platform & Developer Experience (Lisbon)

Datadog’s Product Engineering teams build the interfaces that customers rely on to observe, monitor, and troubleshoot their systems in real time. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll lead the development of complex UI features used daily by hundreds of thousands of users across our core observability products. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to shape the user experience, own architectural decisions, and continuously improve the performance and accessibility of our frontend systems. This is an opportunity to work at scale, influence product direction, and mentor others in a high-ownership, growth-oriented environment. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. To give you a quick overview of some of our frontend product focus areas, you can explore the Digital Experience Monitoring suite that includes RUM (improves frontend performance with proactive insights into user behavior), Error Tracking (groups and prioritizes application errors), and Synthetic Monitoring (automatically tests your apps and APIs to catch issues before users do). 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:&nbsp; Design, build, and deliver scalable frontend features for Datadog’s core observability products Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to define user experiences, data flows, and APIs Lead technical discussions and contribute to long-term architectural decisions Improve performance, reliability, and accessibility of user-facing applications Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability Mentor other engineers and promote frontend engineering best practices across the team Who You Are: You have 6+ years of experience building production-grade frontend applications at scale You bring deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React You have strong knowledge of frontend architecture, performance optimization, and browser fundamentals You’ve taken major features from concept to launch with minimal supervision You’re an effective communicator who can influence technical direction You prioritize user experience and have an eye for UI quality and detail 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.&nbsp; &nbsp; Benefits and Growth:&nbsp; Generous and competitive benefits package New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan Continuous career development and pathing opportunities Employee-focused best in class onboarding Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program Friendly and inclusive workplace culture Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-VG1 About Datadog:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.&nbsp; Privacy and AI Guidelines: Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s&nbsp;Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.

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