# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $192k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** cloud technologies, apm, Security, Analytics, AI/ML, Solutions Architecture, product development, technical due diligence, proof of concept, sandbox environments, integration planning
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Lead technical due diligence and product evaluations for AI, cloud, and security startup acquisitions at Datadog. Conduct architecture assessments, build PoCs, provide integration recommendations, and advise C-level leadership on M&A strategy. Requires broad cloud expertise, strong communication, and 7+ years experience.

## Job Description

## 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

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