Datadog is looking for engineering interns to help influence the engineering organization through the efficient use of observability and resilience best practices, solving complex reliability and observability problems.
Requirements
- You are comfortable coding in one or more languages (experience with Go or Python is a plus)
- You have strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, software design, operating systems, networking to name a few)
- You have taken classes or have done individual projects that are security or site reliability engineering focused or adjacent, and are curious to learn more about it
- You value code simplicity and performance
- You have worked as a software engineering intern or have related industry experience
- You are interested in solving the challenges of reliability at a fast-growing tech company
- Experience with security or site reliability engineering is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain tools to automate and streamline game days in Datadog
- Ensure our tools are user-friendly, scalable, and safe to earn trust and minimize risk during live execution
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate chaos engineering into the development lifecycle
- Design and implement internal tooling that supports our observability use cases in partnership with Engineering teams
- Work with product teams to influence and agree on solutions for internal SRE use cases - promoting best practices and improving reliability across Datadog products!
- Collaborate with the other SRE teams on projects like large-scale game days, defining SLOs, and more
- Develop LLM-powered workflows to automate vulnerability triage and accelerate remediation
Other
- You are targeting a 2027 full-time start date
- You are in the process of receiving/have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- You are a self-starter who enjoys working with other people and are motivated in making the lives of your engineering peers a bit easier
- You are available to work full-time from the Datadog New York office from one of the following: May 18, 2026 - August 14, 2026, May 18, 2026 - August 21, 2026, June 1, 2026 - August 21, 2026
- You are eligible for any required authorizations from the US government
