Datadog Salary

💰 $115K–$216K salary range

Median: $164K  ·  Based on 216 public Datadog job postings  ·  Updated September 9, 2026

This Datadog salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect the posted-range midpoint (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at Datadog

• Distinguished Architect, AI — $330K–$440K · Product Solutions Architecture
• AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR) — $320K–$400K · Dev Eng
• Director, Product Management - Platforms — $280K–$350K · Product Management
• Staff Applied Scientist - Dashboards — $276K–$345K · Dev Eng
• Staff Applied Scientist - Agentic Interfaces — $276K–$345K · Dev Eng
• Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM) — $272K–$340K · Dev Eng
• Senior Staff Software Engineer — $272K–$340K · Dev Eng
• Area Vice President, Sales Engineering — $238K–$317K · Enterprise Sales Engineering
• Manager II, Engineering - Observability Pipelines — $252K–$315K · Leadership
• Staff Developer Advocate - Leadership — $255K–$310K · Community

Datadog salary by department

• dev eng: $267K median · $400K top base — AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR) (view JD) (21 roles)
• product design: $230K median · $290K top base — Staff Visual Designer, Design Lab (view JD) (5 roles)
• corporate development: $225K median · $284K top base — Senior Corporate Development Lead, AI (view JD) (6 roles)
• leadership: $216K median · $315K top base — Manager II, Engineering - Observability Pipelines (view JD) (10 roles)
• security: $216K median · $305K top base — Staff Application Security Engineer (view JD) (5 roles)
• product management: $216K median · $350K top base — Director, Product Management - Platforms (view JD) (21 roles)
• people: $182K median · $250K top base — Senior Program Manager, People Team (NYC) (view JD) (8 roles)
• community: $180K median · $310K top base — Staff Developer Advocate - Leadership (view JD) (7 roles)

Datadog salary by location

• New York: $215K median · $440K top base — Distinguished Architect, AI (view JD) (97 roles)
• Boston: $167K median · $317K top base — Area Vice President, Sales Engineering (view JD) (44 roles)
• Remote: $168K median · $310K top base — Staff Developer Advocate - Leadership (view JD) (26 roles)
• Denver: $106K median · $165K top base — Services Architect 3 - Denver (view JD) (11 roles)
• San Francisco: $194K median · $284K top base — Senior Corporate Development Lead, AI (view JD) (8 roles)
• Chicago: $116K median · $205K top base — Manager I, Technical Account Management - Chicago/Denver (view JD) (4 roles)

Remote work at Datadog

13% of Datadog's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Datadog looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: MEDDPICC (45) · AWS (29) · GCP (27) · Azure (27) · Kubernetes (27) · Python (24) · Go (21) · Spring (17) · CI/CD (14) · Java (8).

Benefits & perks at Datadog

Commonly listed: 401k (210) · pto (203) · dental (200) · mental-health (200) · medical (37) · parental (1) · gym (1).

About Datadog

Datadog is Public stage · 5,001–10,000 employees · founded 2010 · HQ New York City, NY. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Datadog

Roles typically ask for around 6 years of experience (up to 15+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 25 that do, PhD and Bachelor's and Master's are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 97% of these postings reference equity (rsu, espp). Equity is not included in the medians above.

Datadog total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 1% include commission. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Datadog hiring activity

Datadog has 216 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 216 public job postings with disclosed pay. 57 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (119 in the last 90). Mostly full-time, with 9 contract roles in the mix.

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Common questions

What does Datadog pay?
The median pay is $164K, with a typical range of $115K–$216K, based on 216 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Datadog?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Distinguished Architect, AI, at $330K–$440K base.

Which team pays the most at Datadog?
The dev eng team, at a $267K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 216 public Datadog job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed September 9, 2026.

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