What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Scientist position at Datadog?
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.
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
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About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog 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 other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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