Senior Software Engineer - Data Science
DatadogBordeaux, France; Lyon, France; Madrid, Spain; Nantes, France; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, FrancePosted 24 February 2026
Job Description
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Data Science team designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. We work across a range of applications, primarily focusing on analysis on streaming data such as </span><a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/watchdog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">anomaly detection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/explorer/watchdog_insights/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">error outliers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/faulty-deployment-detection/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">faulty deployment analysis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. As a Software Engineer on the Data Science team, you will design, build and scale the backend systems that power our growing suite of </span><a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/watchdog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watchdog products</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You will be working on large-scale distributed systems, horizontally-scalable datastores and a variety of data-processing frameworks to build our next-generation platform and capabilities for Data Science at Datadog. </span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></em></p>
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<p><strong>What You’ll Do: </strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build common services and components encapsulating data science capabilities for other products and teams to leverage</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enable new capabilities for our core products by integrating and preprocessing data from tens of sources and preparing it for incorporation into data science models</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure that our data science-driven features continue to scale well as Datadog adds more customers and ingests more data per customer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leverage modern tools and frameworks to improve the performance and cost-efficiency of data science services</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join an amazing team of data scientists and software engineers building a product that our customers love to use</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work all over the stack, moving fluidly between programming languages and technologies</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br></span></li>
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<p><strong>Who You Are: </strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have experience working in Python, Java, Scala or Go </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have experience working with microservices and/or distributed systems</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">You value simplicity and getting the right things done</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Senior Level) You have built high-volume data pipelines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Senior Level) You have expertise in Python, Go or Scala and are familiar with Spark or Flink</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span data-sheets-root="1">You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how</span></span></li>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></em></p>
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<p><strong>Benefits and Growth: </strong></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive global benefits </span></li>
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