Software Engineer - Early Career
DatadogLisbon, Portugal
Posted April 6, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks.
Job Description
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.
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
