Data Analyst - Intern

About Datadog:

We're on a mission to build the best monitoring 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—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

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The Opportunity:

We’re looking for a data analyst intern with a passion for data and the insights that can be extracted from it in order to make data-informed decisions. We are building out a first-class Internal Analytics department composed of Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. We ensure all teams at Datadog can easily self-serve the data and report they need to drive their projects and make decisions. 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!

In This Role You Will:

• Contribute to building foundational (critical) analytics dashboards in our BI tool, Metabase, that are actionable and used across multiple teams at Datadog in order to make strategic decisions
• Assist with facilitating data-driven decision making for Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Marketing, and Finance, among other teams.
• Help Frontend Engineers within Internal Analytics to understand what new features to implements on our data exploration tools
• Contribute to building the data modeling layer in dbt, using SQL and Python, which exposes clean transformed data to the whole company for analytics, based on our best-in-class code style guide

You Are:

• You are in the process of receiving a degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or related degree
• You are seeking an end-of-studies internship
• Able to work full-time for at least 5 months 
• You have some experience with data analysis and visualization in a Business Intelligence tool such as Metabase, Looker, or Tableau
• You are proficient with SQL and are able to write complex and performant queries with little to no assistance and understand of the difference between SQL that works and performant SQL
• You have a working knowledge of the command line and Git
• You are a clear, concise communicator that works well with others
• You can explain complex datasets or queries to non-technical people in understandable ways
• You have a natural curiosity and investigative mindset - driven to know “why”
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment and thrive on both autonomy and collaboration

Bonus Points:

• You have worked on a team that has a thorough review process for code and reports
• You have worked with a data transformation tool such as dbt
• You have some experience with data warehouses such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake
• You have a some experience with working with APIs and a programming language such as Python

Why You Should Apply: 

• Mentorship opportunities with team members, leadership, and beyond
• Continuous career and professional development opportunities
• Training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Relocation stipend and travel benefits
• Intern cohort and monthly company social events
• Networking opportunities with across all teams at Datadog
• Unlimited snacks & drinks in our office
• Catered Lunches on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
• Beautiful offices in convenient locations with amazing views

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to change globally, our hiring plans will change with it. We are following current company safety guidelines with the goal to hire team members who will work within one of our offices once it’s safe to do so. We will update all applicants with the appropriate changes when necessary.

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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.

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