Software Engineer - Early Career

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We’re looking for early-career engineers to help us 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 early-career engineers are key contributors to our product.

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
• Deploy a new feature to production and progressively roll it out with feature flags
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Create a way to optimize a service to handle more traffic at scale
• In partnership with your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

• You are in the process of receiving/have a degree in computer science, software engineering, or related scientific field, or equivalent experience
• You are targeting a 2025 full-time start date
• You are comfortable coding in one or more languages (experience with Go or Python is a plus)
• You value code simplicity and performance
• You have worked as a software engineering intern or have related experience
• 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 start work from one of our offices on one of the following dates: 
• February 24, 2025
• July 7, 2025
• August 25, 2025

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $123,000—$155,000 USD

• 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) and monthly company social events
• Relocation support and travel benefits
• Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
• Beautiful offices in convenient locations with amazing views
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

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. Early-career engineers work towards the same objectives as their senior teammates to bring lasting impact to our products.