Senior Detection Engineer in United States

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services. Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide. See our blog post . The Streaming Platform Client team sits at the heart of this ecosystem. We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python. We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library. Our library runs on critical data paths that handle hundreds of millions of messages per second making performance, observability, and reliability paramount. We also develop and operate the service that bridges the clients fleet with the platform's control plane, handling complex balancing, scaling, and static stability challenges. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve these features. You will collaborate directly with our users, tackle performance-critical code, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across the control plane, client libraries, and data plane. 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: Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services. Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane. Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency. Champion the developer experience by providing

Datadog’s Implementation Services team helps customers implement and deploy Datadog quickly and successfully. Our team of architects leads the discovery, design, build, and launch of the Datadog platform to help customers accelerate time to value and get the most out of their investment. As a Senior Services Architect focused on Security and Cloud SIEM, you will help customers design, implement, and operationalize Datadog’s security capabilities across cloud, infrastructure, application, and log data sources. You will lead structured, outcome-driven professional services engagements delivered through a day-based professional services delivery model, partnering directly with customers through co-development working sessions, architecture workshops, implementation planning, and operational handoff. This role is ideal for someone who combines customer-facing consulting experience with strong cybersecurity knowledge, hands-on Cloud SIEM implementation skills, and an understanding of security control frameworks such as NIST 800-53, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or similar standards. 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 and guide execution of Datadog implementations, focusing on Security and Cloud SIEM deployment, including discovery, requirements gathering, technical architecture, deployment planning, and launch. Partner with customers to map security requirements, controls, and monitoring objectives to Datadog capabilities, including frameworks such as NIST 800-53, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, or similar standards. Advise customers on security data strategy, including log source prioritization, parsing, normalizat

About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. You will: Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next Who You Are: You have significant experience in one or more languages You value code simplicity and performance You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs 6+ years of experience Bonus points: You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before You have a strong background in statistics You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualificat

The Language Tools team enables ~1,500 Datadog developers to build, test, and package millions of lines of Go, Python, Java, Rust, and TypeScript in our backend monorepo. Our success is measured by their productivity and satisfaction. They use the tools that we develop and support several times a day, in both development and CI environments. We use the Bazel open source build system as a foundation. The team is growing rapidly, both with Datadog and as we absorb other repositories into the monorepo. As a senior software engineer on the team, you will own projects from start to finish, both greenfield and brownfield. You will gain first-hand understanding of what Datadog developers need, and inform our roadmap. 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: Invent build, test and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable to use. Push performance and cost efficiency at scale, raising cache hit rates and cutting CI times and compute spend across millions of targets. Treat CI like SREs treat prod, making sure our pipelines are green and fast. Prepare, run, and finish complex migrations. Contribute back to the Bazel ecosystem, upstreaming fixes and shaping features we depend on. Who You Are: An expert in Bazel and/or one of the languages listed above. A well-rounded engineer. You must broadly understand the various types of software projects that are built, tested, and packaged with our tools. Both careful and fearless. The changes we make impact the velocity of hundreds of engineers. They are risky but necessary. User-focused. We help Datadog engineers to use the tools that we develop, and continuously improve their usability, so they don’t need our help the next time. Ideally, you have ex

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager to join our security product marketing team and help bring Datadog’s rapidly growing security offerings to market. In this high-impact role, you’ll collaborate closely with Product, Sales, Sales Engineering, and Enablement to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling narratives that drive awareness, adoption, and differentiation. As the first hire in this space, you'll own key go-to-market efforts, lead technical positioning for strategic initiatives, and mentor others on content strategy and enablement best practices. This is a unique opportunity to shape how Datadog tells its security story to a global market. 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 execute the technical marketing plan for Datadog’s security product line, from launches to scaled adoption. Partner cross-functionally with Product, PMM, Sales Engineering, and Enablement to craft differentiated messaging, inform roadmap decisions, and build cross-product solution narratives. Create and deliver high-impact sales tools including battlecards, investigation flows, objection handling guides, and competitive workshops. Lead competitive strategy by synthesizing market insights and producing content that positions Datadog as a differentiated leader in cloud-native security. Act as a technical subject matter expert and trusted advisor — coaching field teams, reviewing enablement content, and influencing internal strategy. Represent Datadog in customer briefings, industry events, and webinars, serving as a go-to voice on observability and security. Who You Are: 8+ years of experience in technical product marketing, developer relations, product management, solutions engineering, or related roles in

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services. Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide. See our blog post . The Streaming Platform Client team sits at the heart of this ecosystem. We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python. We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library. Our library runs on critical data paths that handle hundreds of millions of messages per second making performance, observability, and reliability paramount. We also develop and operate the service that bridges the clients fleet with the platform's control plane, handling complex balancing, scaling, and static stability challenges. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve these features. You will collaborate directly with our users, tackle performance-critical code, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across the control plane, client libraries, and data plane. 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: Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services. Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane. Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency. Champion the developer experience by pro

Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability. 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: Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company Who You Are: 6+ years of experience You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++) You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…) You can get down to the low-level when needed You care about simple designs and performance You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output. Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government. Datadog values peo

Datadog's Finance team partners with stakeholders across the organization, providing commercial, operational, and analytical support to ensure that Datadog’s business continues its rapid and efficient growth. We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our growing accounting team. This role is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional to play a key part in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and a passion for ensuring accurate financial reporting. As a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for assisting in the month-end close process, preparing account reconciliations and financial statement analytics, supporting the preparation of internal reporting packages, supporting external audits, and assisting with ad hoc projects. You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the company, contributing to the continuous improvement of processes and internal controls. 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: Own key areas of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close process, with a primary focus on Sales and Marketing expenses Assist in preparing internal reporting packages, ensuring financial reporting is timely, accurate, and compliant with US GAAP Perform analytics over financial results to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial statements Investigate reporting discrepancies and communicate issues promptly to management Serve as a key point of contact for year-end financial statement audits, quarterly reviews, and internal audit and SOX requests Proactively recommend and implement process improvements to simplify, standardize and streamline accounting efforts Partner with Sales

As the Senior Product Manager for the Actions & Automations team, you will own the ecosystem that enables customers, partners, and Datadog teams to build, deploy, and operate AI agents on Datadog. You will drive the strategy and execution for the platform capabilities, developer experience, integrations, and extensibility model that make Datadog the best place to build agents that understand and act on production systems. Modern engineering organizations are entering a new era where software is not only monitored and operated by humans, but increasingly by AI-powered agents. As agentic workflows reshape how teams build, operate, secure, and troubleshoot systems, customers need a platform for creating specialized agents, connecting them to business and engineering systems, governing their behavior, and extending them to solve unique organizational problems. You will define and build the ecosystem that makes this possible. Agent Builder sits at the intersection of Datadog's products, AI capabilities, and ecosystem strategy. You will have the opportunity to work across the breadth of the Datadog platform, partner with teams throughout the company, and help establish Datadog as the foundation for operational AI. 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 the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Datadog's Agent Builder platform and ecosystem. Own the core platform capabilities that enable customers and partners to create, customize, deploy, and manage AI agents. Drive the extensibility model for agents, including integrations, tools, actions, context sources, APIs, SDKs, and developer workflows. Shape how agents perform actions across Datadog products and third-party systems. Partner closely with AI, platform, infrastructure, and product tea

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. The Product Solution Architecture team works closely with Datadog customers, Datadog’s Product management, engineering and Tech Solutions teams to help architect and implement the Datadog Solution. The team has grown to cover more than 12 Product Categories and needs a highly motivated, results-oriented individual to help lead the team. 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: Manage a team of expert individual contributors, working with Engineering and Product Management on their Product, who help create best practices for adoption of Datadog at scale. Assist in recruiting and hiring of top talent for the team. Mentor/coach new hires during on-boarding to ensure proper ramping of skills and capabilities Ensure that your team is aligned to top company initiatives and enabled to work with various Datadog internal and external stakeholders Deliver performance reviews along with collaborating on and executing individual development plans Be a Trusted Advisor to Product Management by providing high quality feedback based on your field experience working closely with our Sales, Support, Partners and Customers Offer guidance on architecture choices, data collection, and best practices to large Enterprise customers as they adopt these Datadog services across the organization Participate in Executive Brief conversations with high profile customers and prospects about overall architecture, Observability Best Practices and industry trends Who You Are: 10+ years of experience solving complex problems for customers and a strong kno

Senior Partner Program Manager - Datadog Reseller Program Remote (US) or New York, New York, USA We're looking for an experienced Senior Partner Program Manager to own partner pricing strategy, partner deal support, and pricing enablement across Datadog's Channels & Alliances organization. In this role, you'll serve as the subject matter expert for partner pricing, helping shape how Datadog structures, operationalizes, and scales partner pricing across its ecosystem. You'll act as the primary liaison between Channels & Alliances and Deal Desk, ensuring partner-specific pricing requirements, commercial frameworks, and program considerations are represented in Datadog's broader pricing strategy and processes. You'll support both internal teams and external partners by providing guidance on pricing models, deal structures, incentives, and commercial programs. You'll also own pricing enablement for the partner organization, developing training content and onboarding programs that help Partner Sales Managers confidently navigate Datadog's evolving pricing landscape. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires deep experience with Deal Desk, partner commercial models, and SaaS pricing, along with the ability to translate complex pricing concepts into scalable programs, tools, and training. 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 Own global partner pricing for the Datadog Partner Network Serve as the Channels & Alliances subject matter expert for partner pricing, commercial frameworks, and deal strategy Act as the primary liaison between Channels & Alliances and Deal Desk for partner-related pricing, discounting, incentives, and program requirements Advise Partner Sales Managers (PSMs) and partners on pricing models, deal structure

Senior Product Manager - Search Datadog’s Search team helps users – both human and agents – find answers to their questions. Search is a critical function in Datadog, and touches many product surfaces: the query editors in product homepages and dashboards, search bars for finding relevant assets, the global cmd+k navigation search, and the MCP tools that our Bits AI agent uses to respond to natural language prompts. Search is a full-stack team: owning user-facing search components, backend search ranking systems, and machine learning models to produce recommendations. The Search team is relatively new, and still growing. We have recently built out agentic search tools, and we are looking for a leader to help us expand to ambitious orchestration systems that deliver accurate results, and proactive recommendations across both keyword and semantic search. Beyond this, you’ll have room to influence how Datadog thinks about Search as a strategic surface. What you’ll do: Define and deliver how Datadog's AI agents discover the right context and tools to answer natural-language questions accurately and at scale Stay on top of industry trends in UI and agentic search experiences and capabilities Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate ranking, personalization, and recommendation models that scale across both human and agentic users Define and monitor KPIs for search quality, adoption, and downstream impact on user productivity; use them to drive data-informed decision making Engage directly with customers and internal product teams to deeply understand search journeys across query editors, global navigation, and natural-language agent interfaces Who you are: You have experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems You are familiar with or very interested in MCP servers and differences between human and agentic UX You have a sharp eye for design and strong opinions on the micro-interactions — keyboard navigation, autocomplete behavior, loading

Datadog is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist to keep up with our rapidly growing company. In this role, you will support the payrolls either directly through Workday and ADP or indirectly via a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) for the Americas (Canada, Mexico, and Brazil).. The individual will work closely with the internal team and with local payroll providers in order to securely process payroll within specified deadlines. You will also play a key role in supporting the company’s equity events by coordinating with the Equity team for stock based compensation including Restricted Stock Unit releases, Non Qualified Stock Options, and Employee Stock Purchase transactions, ensuring accurate tax withholding, regulatory compliance, and timely reporting. Most importantly, you will collaborate with our People and Finance teams to continue to scale this critical function. 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 Manage the preparation and processing of payroll, ensuring data accuracy and meeting of deadlines. Handle all government reporting requirements for payroll taxes, withholdings and employer contributions. Manage regional payroll partners and PEO, including defining KPIs and standards they are required to meet. Liaise with payroll counterparts in APAC and EMEA to ensure global consistency of payroll processes and practices. Partner with the Benefits team on all matters involving benefits. Partner with the HRIS team for configuration and testing of new codes, tax withholding configurations, inbound/outbound integrations, and all other payroll related projects involving Workday. Partner with Finance stakeholders bridging the relationship between Payroll and Finance functions and support audits, identify and implemen

Datadog is seeking a strategic, visionary, and results-oriented Senior Director, Growth Marketing – Organic Growth (SEO/GEO/PLG) to lead our organic acquisition strategy across traditional search engines and emerging AI/LLM platforms. This leader will own the vision, strategy, and operating model responsible for driving measurable growth in organic traffic and inbound pipeline through content programs, off-page authority, and AI/LLM discoverability initiatives. In this role, you will lead a team of organic growth specialists, while partnering closely with Website Experience, Product Marketing, and Engineering teams. You will define Datadog's long-term organic growth strategy, establish investment priorities, and ensure the organization is positioned to win across an increasingly complex discovery ecosystem. 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: Own Datadog’s content-led SEO/GEO/PLG strategy, defining the topics, formats, and ecosystems that drive measurable growth in traffic and pipeline Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team Identify and prioritize high-impact content opportunities across product areas and influence cross-functional teams to bring that content to life Map and optimize Datadog’s presence across the full ecosystem of LLM-ingested content (e.g., YouTube, Reddit, review sites) to improve AI-driven discoverability Design and execute a comprehensive off-page strategy, including link acquisition, digital PR, and authority-building initiatives Partner closely with the Website Experience team, who owns technical SEO, to ensure content is effectively surfaced, indexed, and performant Create and contribute to high-impact content (e.g., flagship pieces, new formats, or experimental channels), setting the standard for qualit

As a Finance Systems Analyst, you will play a key role in modernizing Datadog's finance organization through process automation, data analytics, and financial systems optimization. Working within the Finance Systems team, you will partner closely with Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and other finance stakeholders to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial processes and reporting. You will leverage technologies such as AI tools, SQL, Python, Tableau, and financial systems to analyze data, automate workflows, and deliver actionable insights. This role offers an opportunity to help shape how emerging technologies, including AI, transform finance operations while contributing to strategic decision-making across the business. 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 Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and other Finance stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into scalable reporting and analytics solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including IT, Business Systems, Sales Systems, and Analytics to drive data and automation initiatives. Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools that monitor financial and operational performance and support evolving business priorities. Automate recurring finance processes and enhance data workflows using AI tools, data visualization platforms, and custom solutions. Support financial system implementations and upgrades through data migration, mapping, reporting integration, testing, and validation activities. Deliver analytical insights and maintain documentation that enables self-service reporting and informed decision-making across Finance. Who You Are: Have 1-5 years of experience in data analytics, financial systems, finance operations, or a rel