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We are looking for a Program Manager to join our People Team, reporting to the Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer. In this role, you will drive large-scale, high-impact, and cross-functional programs that shape and evolve our People products and infrastructure. You will operate at both a strategic and executional level, partnering across the People Team, and with business and functional stakeholders across Finance, Legal, IT, and business leadership to deliver transformative initiatives that support Datadog’s growth. This is a highly visible role requiring strong program management, systems thinking, and the ability to connect initiatives across the organization while improving operational effectiveness and employee experience. 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: Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional People programs, from ideation through execution and iteration Partner with senior stakeholders across the business to define program goals, success metrics, and roadmaps Deliver People products through scalable processes and frameworks that improve employee experience and organizational effectiveness Identify dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs across initiatives, proactively driving alignment and decision-making Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensuring clear communication and accountability across teams Establish program governance, reporting, and operating rhythms to track progress and outcomes Synthesize insights across multiple workstreams to inform executive-level updates and recommendations Continuously improve program management practices within the People Team Who You Are: 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, consulting, or a related field, preferably

Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels and operates. We’re building a small, high-leverage Design Lab team to define that evolution, and we’re looking for a Staff Visual Designer to help author it. Our design system powers everything we ship. Now we’re ready to evolve it. As Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex product surfaces, the visual language needs to grow with it. We’re looking for someone who can help define that next phase, someone with taste, judgment, and the confidence to shape how the product feels at scale. 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 and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces. Establish the visual quality bar for the platform. Lead exploratory and concept work that pushes our system forward. Translate bold visual ideas into scalable patterns that can live inside a design system. Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, and Design Systems to unify expression across product and marketing. Influence executive stakeholders through clear, compelling visual storytelling. Prototype, test, and refine new patterns before they become systemized. Help shape how visual direction is integrated into our design process. You will report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers. Who You Are You have 10+ years of experience in visual and/or product design You have led a meaningful visual evolution or rebrand within a mature product ecosystem. You have strong taste and are comfortable defending a point of view. You know how to translate brand into scalable product systems. You think in systems, but you’re motivated by craft. Yo

The eBPF APM team is building a zero-instrumentation observability solution that automatically discovers services on every host, supports both plaintext and TLS-encrypted traffic, classifies Layer 7 protocols, decodes service-level traffic, and reports RED (requests, errors, duration) metrics. Leveraging deep expertise in eBPF, the team operates across a wide range of Linux kernel versions, distributions, and complex customer environments. In addition to low-level networking, the team solves challenges related to protocol versioning, TLS detection across diverse languages and runtimes, and resilient performance in production systems We’re looking for a senior engineer with strong systems-level thinking and a good understanding of Linux. You should be comfortable working close to the kernel, ideally with experience in eBPF, or with a strong desire to dive into it. Proficiency in C/C++/ Go is essential, and familiarity with networking protocols, TLS internals, or distributed tracing is a strong advantage. You’ll join a high-impact team tackling ambitious technical challenges—like decoding traffic across multiple protocols, and ensuring high-fidelity metrics in complex, real-world environments. You’ll be expected to lead design and implementation efforts, contribute to roadmap planning, and collaborate across teams to ensure our solution remains robust, scalable, and frictionless for our users. This role is a great fit for engineers who thrive on low-level, performance-sensitive problems, and want to shape the future of observability through cutting-edge kernel technology. 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: Design and build core components of our zero-instrumentation APM product using eBPF and Go Develop systems to aut

As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will proactively drive new product attachment and effective strong relationships across our largest and most strategic customers. You’ll advocate for the customer internally and focus on a positive customer experience. Interactions are rooted in relationship-management, first and foremost, while also advocating for growth opportunities. Enterprise Customer Success Managers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer's unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. 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: Act as a strategic partner to customers, orchestrating cross-functional internal teams and engaging executive, technical, and business stakeholders to understand customer goals and translate them into a clear, deliverable Datadog value narrative. Proactively build and maintain executive relationships to deliver clear, outcome-driven value stories that connect Datadog technical use cases to measurable business results. Lead QBRs and strategic reviews as a forum to demonstrate impact, align on priorities, and define next-step initiatives. Analyze adoption and usage trends to quantify value delivered, extract insights from large datasets, identify gaps, and drive financially grounded commercial recommendations and strategic opportunities. Position Datadog as a critical observability platform that enables reliability, efficiency, and informed decision-making. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers Collaborate cross-functionally with AEs, SEs, TAM, Product, Support, Enablement and other technical teams to ensure consistent value delivery and messaging. With demonstrated understanding of observability and security pla

Datadog is entering a new chapter in how our product looks, feels and operates. We're building a small, high-leverage Design Lab team to define that evolution, and we're looking for a Senior Staff Visual Designer to author it. Our design system powers everything we ship. Now we're ready to evolve it. As Datadog expands into AI-driven experiences and more complex product surfaces, the visual language needs to grow with it. This is the role that decides what that language is — someone with taste, judgment, and the confidence to set a direction and defend it. 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 and evolve Datadog’s visual language across product surfaces. Lead exploratory and concept work, creating a range of distinct visual directions for the next generation of the product. Synthesize product context, research, references, and stakeholder input into clear visual principles and a coherent point of view. Establish the quality bar for typography, color, composition, iconography, imagery, motion, and visual expression across the platform. Create high-fidelity product exemplars and prototypes that make an emerging direction tangible. Partner deeply with Brand, Product Design, Motion, and Design Systems to test and refine the direction across different surfaces. Influence executives and senior stakeholders through clear, persuasive visual storytelling. Guide and critique the work of other designers, helping the visual direction remain coherent as it evolves. Help shape how visual exploration, critique, and craft are integrated into Datadog’s design process. You will report directly to the Design Director and work as part of a small, focused team defining the future state before it scales across hundreds of designers and engineers. Who Yo

Role Summary: Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines with log management software that customers deploy and manage in their own infrastructure. This role will focus on building and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. You will operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architecture, cross-team delivery, and product direction across a complex and evolving space. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and solve deeply technical challenges at scale. 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: Make customer-controlled deployments feel like a managed Datadog product: deployment, upgrades, configuration, observability, diagnostics, reliability, and secure operation across diverse customer cloud environments Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects Design and implement software that runs reliably that customers deploy and operate within their own cloud infrastructure. Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments Who You Are: You have significant experience building software that is installed, deployed, and operated in customer environments rather than only as a fully managed SaaS service. You have strong expertise in distributed systems,

Datadog’s Cloud Networks team designs, builds, and maintains the production network infrastructure that powers everything built on top of our platform across AWS, GCP, Azure, and beyond. In this role, you’ll set technical direction for how we scale our multi-region, multi-cloud network footprint while keeping reliability and performance high. You’ll partner closely with internal teams and Cloud Service Providers to troubleshoot complex connectivity issues, integrate new networking capabilities, and improve the foundations our engineers and customers rely on. This is a high-impact opportunity to drive meaningful improvements in scale, resiliency, and cost efficiency. 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: Design, build, and operate cloud network infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Neoclouds in a multi-region environment. Own connectivity between clouds, customers, and developers—ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable network paths. Set clear technical direction for expanding data centers and evolving the network while maintaining stability and performance. Improve cross-site and cross-region connectivity patterns to support Datadog’s growing platform needs. Lead deep investigations into latency, packet loss, and connectivity failures – from pcap and path analysis through to escalations with cloud providers that may originate from customer support Identify and deliver network-related efficiency and cost-saving opportunities that positively impact business health. Who You Are: You have deep networking expertise. You understand BGP, route policies, path selection, prefix advertisement, and what breaks in large-scale networking. You have substantial experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale Software-Defined Networks—inclu

Individual Contributor JD: We are looking for an experienced Channel & Alliances sales professional to build and accelerate growth with our channel partners by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success as well as manage ongoing relationships with key strategic partners, including professional services partners and resellers. Our ultimate goal is developing alliances that drive both customer adoption and new revenue. This is a great opportunity for you to join a cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company's growth. What You’ll Do: Identify and recruit new strategic partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing partners through training, enablement and joint selling Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host quarterly business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: 5+ years of experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing Willingness to travel 25-50% of the time Bonus points: Experience with systems management or monitoring Experience with partnerships supporting DevOps, particularly in a cloud environment Technical background/education Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for taking initiatives from ideation to impact Passion for fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable growth culture and environment Experience in identifying market opportunities with a track record of initiatin

We are looking for an experienced Partner Sales Manager to ignite partnerships by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success and nurture ongoing relationships with key strategic Global Systems Integrator partners. Our ultimate goal is building channels and alliances that drive new customer adoption and revenue. This is a great opportunity for you to join a high-growth cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company's expansion. 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: Identify and recruit new strategic Global SI partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing GSI partners through training, planning and joint selling activities Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships Understanding of, and exposure to working with, the leading Global and regional SIs Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing Willingness to travel 40-50% of the time Bonus Points: 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud servic

The Team: We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The technical solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers through demos, presentations, technical evaluations, and ongoing support. Technical solutions is a growing global team that collaborates constantly to share knowledge and continuously advance our technical skillset. The Opportunity: The Partner Solution Architect (PSA) is a Datadog expert who will work closely with Datadog’s Director, Adoption Services, and is aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment. The PSA is responsible for supporting a variety of technical initiatives and activities for our partners (for example: cloud migration, application modernization, DevOps transformation). They are accountable for the outcome of these initiatives, and frequently collaborate with both Datadog and Partner resources to drive success. The PSA is a trusted technical advisor for our Partner channel. You Will: Ensure the successful onboarding, training, enablement, and certification of partner technical resources; Participate in periodic joint business planning and review sessions to ensure direct alignment between Datadog and Partner technical teams; Collaborate internally to support Partner technical initiatives such as end-customer demonstrations and proofs of value; partner team enablement workshops; assessment, advice, and coaching on lead practices; Advocate on behalf of Partners’ technical concerns (use cases, feature requests, support issues, e.g.) with Datadog internal teams and personnel, helping to bring those concerns to resolution; Analyze and understand Partner service offerings on a regular basis and provide recommendations to enhance the value of those services through greater or improved adoption of Datadog features and capabilities; Collaborate with Datadog’s produ

At Datadog, Office Operations run the day-to-day operations for Datadog and help to keep our employees safe, happy and productive, which means every day is different. Office Operations work closely with leadership and employees to ensure that Datadog keeps scaling smoothly and remains a great place to work. Datadog is looking for an Office Operations Associate to join our Operations team in Bangalore to help us with a range of responsibilities to support our rapidly-growing office. You’ll help keep our employees safe, happy and productive, which could mean ensuring we’re not running out of espresso beans and pretzels, planning an event for 80 people, or hosting a 50 guest meetup into our Bangalore office - every day will be different. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. This position requires being in-office 5 days a week. What You’ll Do Act as the face of Datadog by welcoming visitors and supporting employees in the office. Act as the primary point of contact for all in-office needs, creating a friendly, helpful, and professional environment Own and lead daily floor walkthroughs, identifying and resolving operational issues proactively to maintain a high standard of cleanliness, safety, and functionality Cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with coworking vendors/building management & vendor partners Partner with the Security team to ensure the implementation of all safety protocols Serve as a main point of contact for incoming service tickets, ensuring timely updates, proper prioritization, and follow-through Work with vendor partners to keep the office stocked with food, snacks, and pantry supplies, ensuring everything meets our Datadog standard for quality and consistency Maintain inventory of office supplies and ensure timely restocking to support daily operations Arrange fun and engaging events for employees - both on a

We are looking for an experienced Partner Sales Manager to ignite partnerships by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success and nurture ongoing relationships with key strategic Global Systems Integrator partners. Our ultimate goal is building channels and alliances that drive new customer adoption and revenue. This is a great opportunity for you to join a high-growth cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company's expansion. 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: Identify and recruit new strategic Global SI partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing GSI partners through training, planning and joint selling activities Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships

At Datadog, our Office Operations team runs the day-to-day operations to keep our employees safe, happy, and productive. This dynamic team works closely with leadership and staff to ensure that Datadog scales smoothly and continues to be a fantastic place to work. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities for collaboration and growth. What You’ll Do: Act as the face of Datadog by welcoming visitors and supporting employees in the office. Act as the primary point of contact for all in-office needs, creating a friendly, helpful, and professional environment Own and lead daily floor walkthroughs, identifying and resolving operational issues proactively to maintain a high standard of cleanliness, safety, and functionality Cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with building management & vendor partners Partner with the Security team to ensure the implementation of all safety protocols Serve as a main point of contact for incoming service tickets, ensuring timely updates, proper prioritization, and follow-through Work with vendor partners to keep the office stocked with food, snacks, and pantry supplies, ensuring everything meets our Datadog standard for quality and consistency Maintain inventory of office supplies and ensure timely restocking to support daily operations Arrange fun and engaging events for employees - both on a monthly cadence and an ad hoc basis Work closely with teammates to maintain smooth office operations and ensure consistency across all workplace processes Where required, work alongside various Operations teams to assist with office moves, build-outs and openings E

The Team Datadog is an enterprise SaaS company featured in Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte's Fast 500 Technology list, and Forrester's Intelligence Application and Service Monitoring Wave as a leader. Our team works with a best-of-breed product that solves real problems for our customers and partners. We are Datadog's in-house product experts and strategic architects of the partner ecosystem. The Partner Technical Solutions team drives Datadog's worldwide growth by shaping how our partners go to market, build services, and create lasting technical differentiation for their customers. We work at the intersection of product strategy, technical depth, and business outcomes - defining the frameworks, programs, and practices that determine how the partner ecosystem scales. Partner Technical Solutions is a growing global team that operates with high autonomy, collaborates constantly across functions, and sets the standard for what technical partnership looks like at Datadog. The Opportunity This role is built for someone who has already proven they can operate at the intersection of deep technical authority and executive influence - as comfortable presenting observability architecture to a federal agency CISO as they are rolling up their sleeves to get hands-on with a partner's most complex deployment challenges. Aligned to our Channels & Alliances business segment, the Principal PSA will report to the Head of North America Partner Solutions Architecture. They are accountable for the technical success of our most strategically important federal and public sector partners - a trusted advisor, a force multiplier, and the definitive Datadog expert in every room they enter. Specifically, you will Own the senior technical relationship with a portfolio of high-value federal and public sector partners, serving as a strategic advisor to partner CTO, CISO, and VP-level stakeholders; Lead joint technical strategy sessions and executive business reviews, ensuring alignm

We are looking for an experienced Partner Sales Manager to ignite partnerships by identifying and recruiting new partners for long-term success and nurture ongoing relationships with key strategic Global Systems Integrator partners. Our ultimate goal is building channels and alliances that drive new customer adoption and revenue. This is a great opportunity for you to join a high-growth cloud software company and help blaze the path for our company's expansion. 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: Identify and recruit new strategic Global SI partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing GSI partners through training, planning and joint selling activities Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven experience in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships Understanding of, and exposure to working with, the leading Global and regional SIs Ability to quickly understand technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing Willingness to travel 40-50% of the time Bonus Points: 10+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying experience in business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud servic