Data Analyst - Research

About Datadog:

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.

The Team:

We are building out a first-class Internal Analytics department composed of Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. Within Internal Analytics, we’re launching a new team devoted to publishing cutting-edge research on state of the art technologies, such as serverless or container runtime platforms.

You Will:

• Do deep research and analysis on trends in the technology industry using our internal, high-scale data
• Distill that data to concise insights and communicate the findings to Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Community to help them tell a data-driven story to a public audience
• Work with our company-wide community of Data Analysts to push data-driven decision-making to the next level!

You Are:

• A Data Analyst with 2+ years of experience
• Fluent in writing analytical SQL and understand the difference between SQL that works and performant SQL
• A clear, concise communicator that works well with others
• Able to explain complex datasets or queries to non-technical people in understandable ways
• Someone with a natural curiosity and investigative mindset - driven to know “why”
• Excited to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment and thrive on both autonomy and collaboration

Bonus Points:

• You have experience with Spark SQL
• You have experience with Python or another programming language

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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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