Data Scientist - Internal Analytics Platform Datadog
New York, NY

Job Description

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-providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The team:

The Internal Analytics Platform team's mission is to provide all teams at Datadog with data and analytics about our business, operations and product usage.

The opportunity:

As a Data Scientist for the Internal Analytics Platform team, you will be working on problems that have a strong data engineering component where scale is a major factor. You can expect the position to be a split of between 60% data engineering and 40% model building and quantitative methods.

You will:

* Create predictive algorithms for improving operations around the company and increasing product engagement
* Apply machine learning and other quantitative methods to revenue and growth metrics
* Conduct A/B testing for new designs and products to drive engagement and improve discoverability in our application
* Utilize quantitative methods to improve our marketing automation and audience segmentation
* Collect data from a wide range of sources: AWS S3, Redshift, PostgreSQL, and various APIs
* Build data analytics pipelines using Spark, Luigi, and other open-source technologies, with programming languages like Scala, Python, and SQL

Requirements:

* You have experience with tools such as Luigi, Spark, Scala, Python, Pandas, and Redshift
* You have 2+ years of work experience in building production data engineering pipelines
* You have backend programming experience in one or more languages
* You have significant experience applying machine learning to real business problems
* You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment and thrive on autonomy
* You care about code simplicity and performance
* You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience