Staff Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Identify compelling opportunities that support Datadog’s strategic priorities through primary engagement with senior business leaders, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists
• Partner with product teams to comprehensively assess expansion opportunities and build internal and external consensus
• Serve as a subject matter expert on valuation and integration
• Lead all pre-transaction tech-diligence efforts
• Bring transactions over the finish line
• Create or find suitable test-loads if needed, and set up trial environments that can help to test claims and identify values of the startups we evaluate
• Interact with strategic leadership on a regular basis to provide results and opinions on active deals and opportunities
• Represent Product and Engineering in initial Product calls, help identify potential targets and find product fit
• Act as main contact point for startups and cross-functional groups within Datadog, including Product, Engineering, Security in all questions related to integration, value (what we get from the acquisition and what we should build) and architecture of active M&A deals

Who You Are

• Experienced in product development, solution architecture or engineering
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a STEM field or equivalent experience
• An excellent communicator
• Versatile in a wide range of cloud technologies relevant to the full suite of Datadog products - including infrastructure, APM, security, analytics and AI/ML
• Able to focus on high priority testing goals based on value and risk assessment
• Able to prioritize multiple stakeholders and projects with limited resources
• A self-starter who excels in technically demanding, fast-paced, and fluid environments
• Able to demonstrate creative and analytical thinking
• Able to collect feedback from multiple parties, summarize this feedback and merge it with facts and comparisons across similar applications
• Able to build and maintain a network of relationships to facilitate deal flow