Datadog SQL (DDSQL) and Sheets are two of the newest products within Graphing, Datadog’s most-used product area. Together, they give customers flexible ways to query, combine, analyze, visualize, and share data across Datadog.
This role owns the product direction and user experience for both products. Your goal is to help users move from raw data to trustworthy answers quickly—whether they prefer writing SQL, working in a spreadsheet, or building visual analyses.
Doing this well requires more than adding analytical features. Real-world analysis involves nuanced decisions about data models, joins, aggregations, time windows, missing data, query performance, and the transition from exploration to reusable work. You’ll work closely with design and engineering to make these capabilities understandable without limiting their analytical power.
You’ll also help expand the data customers can analyze in Datadog, including third-party and business data alongside operational telemetry. This will make DDSQL and Sheets central analytical tools for a broader range of questions and users.
What you'll do:
- Own DDSQL and Sheets end to end: roadmap, adoption, and growth strategy
- Partner closely with design to establish a high bar for information architecture, interaction design, and visual polish across complex analytical workflows
- Use product analytics and customer research to identify friction, improve onboarding, and measure whether users are reaching useful answers faster
- Define the experience for querying, transforming, visualizing, and sharing data, from query composition and results exploration to errors, performance feedback, and collaboration
- Define and execute the strategy for bringing third-party data into Datadog: from market research and use-case definition through pricing
- Expand Datadog SQL from a standalone editor into a platform-wide query capability on all graphs
- Redesign how users discover and get started with Graphing products: rethink list pages, build onboarding flows, and create entry points that don't assume prior Datadog expertise
- Identify and pitch net-new investment areas for the Graphing suite: new products, new personas, or new capabilities that emerge from what you learn scaling DDSQL and Sheets
Who you are:
- You have experience building customer-facing analytics, BI, notebook, spreadsheet, visualization, or other data-intensive products
- You have strong UI and UX judgment. You can reason through information architecture, interaction patterns, progressive disclosure, and the edge cases that make complex tools feel either excellent or frustrating
- You are analytically hands-on and comfortable using SQL, spreadsheets, BI tools, or notebooks to explore data and answer your own product questions
- You're energized by ambiguity, comfortable forming a point of view with incomplete data, and excited to define problems
- You have a strong technical background and can hold your own in conversations about query engines, data schemas, and storage architecture.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the willingness to present and defend your ideas to technical stakeholders and executives alike
- 4+ years product experience
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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Skills Required
- Experience building customer-facing analytics, BI, notebook, spreadsheet, visualization, or other data-intensive products
- Strong UI and UX judgment, information architecture and interaction design experience
- Analytically hands-on and comfortable using SQL, spreadsheets, BI tools, or notebooks to explore data
- Strong technical background able to discuss query engines, data schemas, and storage architecture
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to present and defend ideas to technical stakeholders and executives
- 4+ years product experience
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision plans plus added mental-health resources and wellness support. Feedback suggests virtual-care options and fitness reimbursements further strengthen this area.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and broad family-forming benefits (e.g., fertility, adoption, surrogacy) are consistently highlighted. Feedback suggests extras like childcare help and pet-related benefits reinforce an inclusive family focus.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employees have access to equity via new-hire grants and a discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Feedback suggests these ownership programs materially enhance total rewards for many roles.
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