Datadog

Staff Software Engineer - Corporate Development

Datadog
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$192k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Identify acquisition and investment opportunities aligned with Datadog’s strategic priorities through engagement with business leaders, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists
  • Partner with Product teams to assess expansion opportunities and build consensus
  • Lead pre-transaction technical due diligence from product and architecture perspectives
  • Evaluate technical architecture, risks, open questions, product quality, and depth
  • Create or locate test loads and establish trial, proof-of-concept, and sandbox environments
  • Provide technical findings, opinions, valuation and integration expertise, and strategic recommendations to leadership
  • Represent Product and Engineering in initial product discussions and assess potential product fit
  • Develop post-acquisition integration paths and help carry integrations through
  • Serve as the primary contact for startups and Datadog Product, Engineering, and Security teams on integration, value, and architecture matters

Requirements

  • Experience in product development, solution architecture, or engineering
  • BS, MS, or PhD in a STEM field, or equivalent experience
  • Broad knowledge of cloud technologies relevant to infrastructure, APM, security, analytics, and AI/ML
  • Ability to prioritize testing goals according to value and risk
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects with limited resources
  • Strong communication, creative thinking, and analytical skills
  • Ability to synthesize feedback, facts, and comparisons across similar applications
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships that facilitate deal flow

Benefits

  • Continuous career development and exposure to company founders
  • Access to latest technology and product training
  • Best-in-breed onboarding
  • Internal mentor and buddy program
  • Inclusive workplace culture
  • Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
  • 401(k) plan and match
  • Paid time off
  • Fitness reimbursements
  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan

Tech Stack

Datadog

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Datadog

About Datadog

10,000+ employees

Datadog builds a SaaS observability and security platform that monitors infrastructure, applications, logs, and services for engineering and DevOps teams. Its products include infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, and cloud security, sold via subscriptions and used across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Datadog is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.

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