Senior Data Scientist - Internal Analytics

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, GoLang, Apache Kafka, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, Data Analytics, Algorithms, Data Modelling, SPARK Programming, Data pipelines, Distributed systems, Luigi, Open source project tools, Real time scoring models

Job Description

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

Our Team:

We are building out a first-class Internal Analytics department composed of Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. If you’re excited to work on a fast-moving team using cutting-edge open-source technologies to collect, store, transform, analyze, and model data, we want to meet you.

You Will:

• Build software systems that extract insights from data, using programming languages like Python and Scala, as well as SQL
• Use machine learning and statistics to build production models that drive business analytics and decision-making internally
• Join a highly collaborative team eager to solve hard problems the right way
• Grow and scale with Datadog

You Are:

• A software engineer and/or data scientist with 5+ years of experience building production applications that serve data and insights
• Skilled in working with data in a language like Python, R, or Scala
• Experienced in applying machine learning to real business problems
• Naturally curious and have an investigative mindset; you’re driven by the “why”
• Able to explain advanced technical concepts in a simple manner and cater to your audience
• Excited to work in a fast, high-growth environment and thrive in autonomy

This is a remote position

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.