We’re looking for engineering interns to join us to help influence the engineering organization at Datadog through the efficient use of observability and resilience best practices. You'll join one of Datadog's Site Reliability Engineering teams and work alongside other engineers to help solve complex reliability and observability problems. Whether you are building scalable full-stack tools that have company-wide impact or rolling out processes that every engineer at Datadog will use, our early-career engineers are key contributors to our product.
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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, build, and maintain tools to automate and streamline game days in Datadog
- Ensure our tools are user-friendly, scalable, and safe to earn trust and minimize risk during live execution
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate chaos engineering into the development lifecycle
- Design and implement internal tooling that supports our observability use cases in partnership with Engineering teams
- Work with product teams to influence and agree on solutions for internal SRE use cases - promoting best practices and improving reliability across Datadog products!
- Collaborate with the other SRE teams on projects like large-scale game days, defining SLOs, and more
- Develop LLM-powered workflows to automate vulnerability triage and accelerate remediation.
- Consolidate and analyze vulnerability data across infrastructure, containers, and code scanning tools to uncover trends and prioritize risk.
- Automate ticket ownership and routing using code ownership data and internal team mappings.
Requirements:
- You are targeting a 2027 full-time start date
- You are in the process of receiving/have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- You are comfortable coding in one or more languages (experience with Go or Python is a plus)
- You have strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, software design, operating systems, networking to name a few)
- You have taken classes or have done individual projects that are security or site reliability engineering focused or adjacent, and are curious to learn more about it
- You are a self-starter who enjoys working with other people and are motivated in making the lives of your engineering peers a bit easier
- You value code simplicity and performance
- You have worked as a software engineering intern or have related industry experience
- You are interested in solving the challenges of reliability at a fast-growing tech company
- You are available to work full-time from the Datadog New York office from one of the following:
- May 18, 2026 - August 14, 2026
- May 18, 2026 - August 21, 2026
- June 1, 2026 - August 21, 2026
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.
Benefits and Growth:
- Opportunities to work with teammates in-office and across the globe on meaningful challenges that will keep you thinking
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- In-person intern cohort and monthly company social events
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Relocation support and travel benefits
- Unlimited snacks and drinks in our office; catered lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Beautiful offices in convenient locations
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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.
If possible, please apply using your personal email address instead of your university email address.
Datadog offers a competitive salary for this role and may include additional compensation elements. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, paid time off, and benefits related to traveling and relocation, if eligible.
About Datadog:
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. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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