Open Source Program Developer
Job role insights
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Date posted
April 12, 2026
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Closing date
May 11, 2026
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Offered salary
Negotiable Price
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Career level
Middle Senior
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Experience
3 - 5 Years 6 - 9 Years
Description
What You’ll Do:
- Build and maintain tools that ease building and releasing Open Source software at Datadog
- Build and maintain tools that ease ingesting Open Source software at Datadog
- Create developer facing documentation and training materials around contributing to open source and maintaining open source projects
- Interface with open source communities to understand problems and trends in the market
- Create tools to automatically analyze and report on Open Source repositories trends and statistics
- Interface with Datadog Open Source Partners candidates and recipients to select new projects for the program and ensure that the program stays useful
- Research and write content for the Datadog Open Source Hub
- Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions), documentation, or code
Who You Are:
- Approximately 3+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
- You are fluent in reading and writing one or more languages, e.g. Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, C#, Rust, and so on.
- You love building tools that make other engineers more productive.
- You have empathy, collaboration, and communication skills to cultivate strong relationships across various teams in the organization.
- Bonus: You are (or have been) an active member of an open source community.
- Bonus: You are familiar with different Open Source licenses and Contributor License Agreements
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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