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About the role: Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and competitive readiness. As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities. You will translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, launches, pricing value, customer sentiment, analyst narratives, and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product, GTM, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Advocacy, and leadership. In this highly technical, hands-on leadership role, you should understand how observability products are implemented, where workflows differ, what technical claims are credible, and how product gaps translate into customer impact. What You'll Do: Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence. Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions. Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance. Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs. Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement. Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs. Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions. Partner with Tec

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,

Team description At Datadog, AI agents are becoming first-class consumers of observability, security, and software delivery data — from third-party coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot, to our own Bits SRE, Bits Assistant, and Bits Dev Agent. The Agentic Interfaces team owns the platform that connects these agents to Datadog: the MCP Server, the tools and retrieval surfaces agents call into, and — critically — the evaluation systems that tell us whether an agent's experience on Datadog data is actually getting better over time. This role is about that last piece. We're hiring a Staff Applied Scientist to define what "good" means for an Agentic interface at Datadog and to build the measurement systems that make it true. "Good" isn't one number — it spans answer quality, tool-selection accuracy, retrieval relevance, latency, token cost, and end-to-end agent success on real customer workflows. You'll design the evals, build the datasets, define the metrics, and partner with the AI engineers on the team to land the platform that lets every product group at Datadog ship integrations that are demonstrably better release over release. The space is full of open research questions. How do you evaluate an agent end-to-end when the trajectory is non-deterministic? How do you score tool selection when the tool catalog has hundreds of entries and grows weekly? How do you build a measurement system that catches regressions across first-party and third-party agents at once, without each team writing their own harness? If those are the problems you want to spend your time on, come build this with us. 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. What You’ll Do: Own the evaluation strategy for Datadog's AI agent integrations. Define the metrics — offline and online, quali

This role is part of Datadog’s Security Agent team, which powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies that help customers detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale. You will work on complex technical challenges involving eBPF, Linux kernel internals, performance-sensitive systems, and large-scale data collection while influencing technical direction across multiple product teams. This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform. 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 the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments. Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout. Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance. Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products. Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges. Who You Are: You have significant experience building software in Linux environments,

Our Staff Developer Advocates are technical leaders and mentors that anchor our team. They own projects from beginning to end, facilitating collaboration and enabling Datadog's community to solve real-world problems. Based in Singapore and supporting the broader Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, this role will enable our community of engineers around Datadog to be part of a movement of building better software. You will work closely with internal product and engineering teams, as well as Datadog’s customers, coaching and enabling them to deliver compelling talks and stories to practitioners. This is a unique opportunity to leverage both your engineering expertise and creative storytelling skills to shape the ever-evolving technological landscape. 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: Act as a subject matter expert for the Datadog advocacy and engineering teams Drive approach and execution of our overall first party technical event content programs in the region, such as Datadog Summits and engineering meetups, to tell authentic, compelling educational and inspirational stories for technical audiences Define and drive our regional advocacy programs for technical audiences, ensuring Datadog remains relevant to technical practitioners Represent Datadog’s point-of-view in the field to technical audiences at events and conferences. Manage, mentor, and grow a team of regional Developer Advocates based across APJ to execute localized community and advocacy strategies. Partner with and coach internal product managers and engineers on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do Represent Datadog point-of-view for our solutions, engineering culture and industry trends that our tec

Data Semantics is Datadog’s authority on semantic knowledge, providing shared infrastructure that powers both Datadog’s product experiences and AI capabilities. As Datadog continues its investment in OpenTelemetry-native observability, semantic interoperability, and AI-powered workflows, this team sits at the center of some of the company’s most strategic platform initiatives. As a Staff Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for the team, balancing stewardship of critical production systems with the exploration of new platform capabilities that improve how telemetry is modeled, understood, and consumed across Datadog. You will work closely with engineering and product partners to define standards, drive technical direction, and deliver solutions that scale across Datadog’s observability platform. 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 the technical direction of the Data Semantics team while remaining deeply hands-on in design, implementation, and delivery. Build and scale semantic infrastructure that bridges OpenTelemetry, Datadog-native telemetry, cloud-provider telemetry, and customer-defined data models. Drive platform initiatives focused on schema evolution, telemetry standardization, data insights, and semantic interoperability across Datadog products. Partner with engineering and product teams across the platform to define standards, align stakeholders, and deliver high-leverage platform capabilities. Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, operational excellence, and long-term career development. Participate in on-call rotations and lead investigation and resolution efforts for complex production incidents affecting critical platform services. Who You Are: You have significant experience designing, opera

This role is part of Datadog’s Security Agent team, which powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies that help customers detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale. You will work on complex technical challenges involving eBPF, Linux kernel internals, performance-sensitive systems, and large-scale data collection while influencing technical direction across multiple product teams. This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform. 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 the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments. Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout. Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance. Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products. Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges. Who You Are: You have significant experience building software in Linux environments,

This role is part of Datadog’s Security Agent team, which powers critical security capabilities across Workload Protection, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security products, and other emerging security offerings. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security technologies that help customers detect threats, monitor system activity, and protect cloud-native workloads at scale. You will work on complex technical challenges involving eBPF, Linux kernel internals, performance-sensitive systems, and large-scale data collection while influencing technical direction across multiple product teams. This role offers significant ownership, broad organizational impact, and the opportunity to shape the future of Datadog’s security platform. 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 the architecture and development of security agent capabilities that power runtime threat detection and workload protection across Datadog Security products. Design and build reusable eBPF-based monitoring functionality for process, file, and network visibility within Linux environments. Drive end-to-end delivery of new features, from technical strategy and design through implementation, testing, and rollout. Establish and evolve testing methodologies that improve platform coverage, detection quality, reliability, and performance. Partner with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to deliver shared platform capabilities used across multiple Datadog products. Provide technical leadership by influencing engineering direction, mentoring peers, and helping resolve complex cross-functional challenges. Who You Are: You have significant experience building software in Linux environments,

We are looking for a talented engineer to lead evaluation of startup acquisition opportunities in the AI, cloud and security space. You will drive product evaluations, prepare and manage technical architecture discussions with target groups in Product and Engineering and provide roadmap suggestions for M&A and investments for Datadog. You will be a key partner to Datadog’s C-level leadership and highly visible at the most senior levels of Datadog. The role is reporting into the Senior Director of Product Strategy and falls within the Product organization. We are looking for an innovative and strategic thinker who is passionate about the latest tech being developed by startups in the cloud, AI and security space. The ideal candidate enjoys researching and evaluating new technologies, works effectively with cross-functional teams, and communicates opinions concisely to our leadership team. Broad understanding of relevant Cloud Technologies and deep understanding of the full coverage of Datadogs current offerings is necessary. The Corporate Development team is small and values authentic, strong-willed individuals who think creatively and proactively. This role leads technical due diligence from a product and architecture perspective across our acquisition pipeline. You'll scope and stand up proof-of-concept and sandbox environments to stress-test candidate products, then give an honest, unvarnished view of their quality and depth - the kind of assessment that holds up regardless of deal momentum. You'll assess technical architecture, flag the risks and open questions that matter most early, and turn that into a clear post-acquisition integration path. Working closely with engineering, you'll keep the evaluation focused on what's actually decision-relevant, then translate the findings into strategic recommendations for leadership and help carry the integration through by partnering with the right people on the other side. What You’l

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

As a Staff Product Manager on Datadog's Observability Data Platform (ODP) , you will lead product management for a portfolio of foundational platform bets — work that changes the cost structure and capability of the platform itself, not the cost of any single feature. Among ODP’s portfolio of engineering work are efforts to bring the platform's unit cost down meaningfully each quarter, plus a slate of architectural bets aimed at order-of-magnitude cost reduction over the longer horizon. The work you'll lead reshapes how Datadog ingests, routes, and exposes telemetry value to customers — and is foundational to how every product team in Datadog's ecosystem will think about telemetry economics going forward. This role reports to the Group Product Manager of ODP. What You'll Do: Set product direction across foundational platform bets by defining problems and desired outcomes, partnering with engineering to determine slices of work that drive value in phases for users and the business. Collaborate on the long-term cost-and-value architecture of the platform — how value-aware telemetry, innovative data engines, and customer-facing cost stories fit together over multiple quarters. Develop and defend sizing and impact estimates for large, diffuse programs — credibly produce the analysis that engineering leadership and pricing partners need to make resourcing and prioritization calls. Anticipate and communicate market trends in telemetry economics and agentic observability and how they shape platform investment. Develop deep understanding of cost-to-serve by partnering with engineering on the unit economics of the data platform and bring that cost-profile understanding into collaborative discussions with product verticals about customer-facing trade-offs. Surface the customer-positive angles in cost work that engineering-led optimization tickets don't currently make visible. Deliver concise written and verbal communication to executive, engineering, and customer audien

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Logs organization at Datadog and help redefine how our customers ingest, query, and derive insights from logs data. In this role, you’ll work closely with Product Managers and customers to drive complex initiatives across ingestion pipelines, search infrastructure, and intelligent log management capabilities - all while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and distributed systems. You’ll have the opportunity to lead efforts that shape the future of log management. 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: Partner with Product Managers to define ambiguous product requirements and determine the most impactful solutions for customers Lead technical strategy and execution and design systems surrounding log query performance and ingestion at scale. Explore and prototype new capabilities and collaborate with peers on initiatives spanning AI-powered log management, security and business operations, advanced query capabilities, and external data sources query capabilities. Mentor engineers across levels and contribute to growing a high-performing, collaborative team culture Who You Are: You have deep experience architecting and scaling backend systems, with a strong focus on data-intensive or distributed infrastructure You excel in ambiguous environments, demonstrating a mix of drive, curiosity and pragmatic decision-making You’ve partnered effectively with Product Managers and customers to define product direction and ship impactful features You have expertise in debugging complex systems and optimizing performance across real-time data pipelines You have experience in using AI agents tools in your day-to-day engineering practices You lead by example and enjoy helping others grow through m

As a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team, you'll help shape how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. You'll lead the design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce developer friction, improve operational visibility, and enable engineering teams to move faster with confidence. This role combines deep distributed systems expertise with technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing platform strategy while remaining hands-on in the code. You'll have the opportunity to solve company-wide challenges spanning cost intelligence, operational tooling, platform health, and developer 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 strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform. Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations. Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency. Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products. Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions. Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Who You Are: You have experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise i

Join the MongoDB Server Query Optimization team, and help us build a world-class distributed open-source query optimizer. Our team plays a crucial role in the experience and performance of data processing. We are responsible for the MongoDB Query Language and the lifecycle of each query, through parsing, optimization and plan selection. We have a presence across the US and Europe including New York, Dublin, Seattle, Palo Alto, and Chicago. We support office-based and remote work and align projects with convenient work hours for each time zone. We have tons of interesting problems to solve with a direct impact on users for transactional, time-series, and analytical workloads. The team is endeavoring to systematically rewrite every major component of our optimization and execution systems. We need your help to design and build the heart of a distributed, flexible schema, document database. ​​This role can be based out of our US offices or remotely in the North America region. Candidate Profile 10+ years of experience in data management systems, distributed systems, or large-scale backend engineering Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture Experience with large code bases written in C++ or another systems programming language. You'll need to trace down defects, estimate work complexity, and design evolution and integration strategies as we rewrite different components of the system A strong foundation in core database internals is essential. While direct experience in query optimization is a massive bonus, it is not a prerequisite. We are also excited to meet candidates with strong backgrounds in compilers, language transpilers, or distributed storage systems Position Expectations Innovate in the area of flexible schema d

Join the MongoDB Server Query Execution team, and help us build a world-class distributed open-source database. Our team plays a crucial role in the performance and efficiency of MongoDB's data processing. We are responsible for building and improving the core execution engine that powers all queries, taking a logical query plan produced by the optimizer and turning it into reality. This includes developing the physical operators for data retrieval and manipulation, improving the runtime for complex analytical and transactional workloads, and owning critical components such as our new execution engine. In addition to the core server, we support the query execution needs of other major products like Atlas Streams, Atlas Search and Vector Search, and mongosync, making our work vital to the entire MongoDB ecosystem. You will be joining a globally distributed team with a significant presence in both North America and Europe. While this role is based in the NAMER region, you will regularly collaborate closely with colleagues across different time zones. We support both office-based work in our North America hubs like New York, as well as remote work. We have tons of interesting problems to solve with a direct impact on users for transactional, time-series, and analytical workloads. To meet the ever-increasing data demands of modern applications, we are actively evolving our query system; this includes strategically re-architecting and improving key components of our query execution engine. We need your help to design and build the core of a distributed, flexible schema document database. This role can be based out of one of our North America offices, such as NYC or Palo Alto, or remotely across North America. Candidate Profile 10+ years of hands-on, professional experience in query engine development or database internals Experience with building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure and rigorous code quality Degree in Computer Science or