Datadog

Datadog's early-careers hub groups student opportunities into two tracks: Business Internships (Sales, Finance, Legal, People, Recruiting, Marketing, Creative) and Technical Internships (Engineering, Product Management, Product Design). Summer internships run 12 weeks or longer; co-ops run 4 to 6 months; and the firm runs a spring start class for full-time early-career hires in addition to multiple summer start dates. All early-career roles are office-based out of one of five hubs: New York, Boston, Denver, Paris, or Madrid. The firm states that the majority of its full-time early-career cohort comes from former interns, so applying to an internship is the dominant route into the full-time class, and accepting one commits the candidate to one of those five cities rather than to remote work.

Datadog's candidate-experience page describes a four-stage process: an initial recruiter or hiring-manager screen by phone or Zoom; a face-to-face interview phase that may include multiple rounds or panels with the recruiter, hiring manager, and team members; an optional take-home project for some roles, with scope and expectations set by the recruiter; and a final executive interview for select roles. Most interviews are conducted virtually over Zoom with one link per interview, and one step is expected to happen in person, with on-site travel arranged through the firm's travel partner after the face-to-face phase. The page explicitly restricts use of AI tools during interviews and states that undisclosed AI use can disqualify a candidate. The take-home leg, where it applies, consumes calendar time outside the live interview windows, so a candidate running this process in parallel with other tech-internship loops needs to budget for an asynchronous build on top of the live sessions.

Datadog's early-careers page states the firm typically posts intern and co-op roles in September to hire for the following calendar year, with most interviews running September through March, and hiring continuing until positions fill. There is no firm-wide fixed deadline; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis through that window. An application submitted in October enters a pipeline whose face-to-face capacity is filling through the winter, so late submissions compete for shrinking interview slots rather than a closed posting - the cost of applying late is reduced odds, not exclusion.

Datadog is a New York-headquartered, NASDAQ-listed observability and security platform; its investor newsroom records that the firm has been named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for five consecutive years through 2025. Three things matter for an early-career applicant weighing Datadog against other SaaS engineering employers:

• The early-career office footprint is New York, Boston, Denver, Paris, and Madrid; the engineering hub is not on the US West Coast.
• Roles are office-based, not remote-first; the early-careers page is explicit on this.
• The firm states the majority of its full-time early-career cohort comes from former interns, so the internship is the dominant funnel into the full-time class rather than one of several equally weighted entry points.

A candidate weighing Datadog against Bay Area SaaS peers is therefore committing to an East Coast or European office, in person, with the internship as the de-facto recruiting route to a full-time offer.

Yes. Datadog currently has 7 open internship and graduate roles on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across Singapore and the United States. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

Datadog has open internship and graduate roles in Singapore and the United States. Specific offices and program structure (summer vs year-round, internship vs graduate scheme) vary by region; check individual postings for details.

Applications to Datadog go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Datadog does not use third-party submission services.