Software Engineer - Early Career

Join Datadog as an Early Career Software Engineer

Datadog is seeking early-career software engineers to join our team and contribute to the development of our high-scale metrics, logs, and application data platform. As a software engineer at Datadog, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting projects across backend, frontend, infrastructure, libraries, data engineering, and data science.

What You’ll Do:

• Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services.
• Deploy new features to production and manage rollouts with feature flags.
• Investigate and resolve production issues for services your team owns.
• Optimize services to handle increased traffic at scale.
• Collaborate with your team to plan and prioritize projects.

Who You Are:

• You are pursuing or have a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent experience.
• You are targeting a 2025 full-time start date.
• You are comfortable coding in one or more languages, with experience in Go or Python being a plus.
• You value code simplicity and performance.
• You have experience as a software engineering intern or in a related role.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy solving complex problems.
• You are a self-starter who enjoys collaborating with other engineers.

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 networking.
• An inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and social events.
• Relocation support and travel benefits.
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents.

About Datadog:

Datadog is a global SaaS company providing cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces, and logs. Our platform is used by organizations of all sizes to enable digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring. We value professional development, diversity of thought, and work excellence.

Join us and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.