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Software Engineer - Winter Intern

Datadog

Join Datadog as a Software Engineer - Winter Intern

We’re looking for interns to join us to help collect, aggregate, visualize, and analyze high-scale metrics, logs, and application data. Software engineering at Datadog includes a variety of exciting opportunities across backend, frontend, infrastructure, libraries, data engineering, and data science. Interested in distributed systems or Kubernetes across tens of thousands of nodes? Looking to build out the platform that powers Datadog’s newest offerings, such as BitsAI or App Builder? Want to see your work actually impact and improve the product in a meaningful way? We’ve got you covered. Whether you’re writing a new integration, building data pipelines, or working with the open-source community, our interns are key contributors to our product.

Datadog offers the unique opportunity to work on large-scale, real-time systems by engineers for engineers. Our product is multi-cloud and collects more than a hundred trillion events per day for 28,000+ customers. Interns work towards the same objectives as their teammates to bring impact to Datadog that persists even after the internship concludes.

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. Our hybrid workplace ensures our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

  • Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services to grow Datadog for its expanding customer base.
  • Deploy new features to production and contribute to projects that have a tangible impact on customers across Datadog’s user base.
  • Develop your tech stack through technologies such as Kubernetes, Bazel, and many more while receiving mentorship from the best engineers in the industry.
  • Grow alongside a diverse cohort of talented interns while working in a fun and collaborative environment.

Who You Are:

  • You are targeting a 2026 full-time start date.
  • You are in the process of receiving/have a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field; or have equivalent experience.
  • You have strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, software design, to name a few).
  • You are comfortable coding in one or more programming languages.
  • You value code simplicity and performance.
  • You want to work in a fast-paced environment that values its employees and customers.
  • You are a self-starter who enjoys partnering with other engineers and solving difficult problems.
  • You are available to work full-time from the Datadog New York or Boston office from January 6, 2025 - April 25, 2025.

Benefits and Growth:

  • Opportunities to work with teammates in-office and across the globe on meaningful challenges that will keep you thinking.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
  • In-person intern cohort and monthly company social events.
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
  • Relocation support and travel benefits.
  • Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
  • Beautiful offices in convenient locations.

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 for this role and may include additional compensation elements. 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, paid time off, and benefits related to traveling and relocation, if eligible.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$100,000—$110,000 USD

Benefits
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  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
  • In-person intern cohort and monthly company social events
  • Inclusive company culture
  • Relocation support and travel benefits
  • Unlimited snacks and drinks in office
  • Catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
  • Healthcare
  • Paid time off

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