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Datadog salaries

What Datadog publishes in its job posts: the median, the range, and how pay differs by role, AI level and country. Only salaries from live posts, nothing self-reported.

$150k median · $116k to $216k middle half · 220 job posts with a salary

Updated Oct 24, 2026

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Salary by role at Datadog

In USD a year. Range is the middle half of posts from 5 posts, and lowest to highest below that. A row appears from 3 posts.

Published salary at Datadog by role
RoleJob postsMedianRange
Sales66$132k$109k to $158k
Software Engineering36$216k$190k to $246k
Product18$216k$176k to $216k
Operations14$142k$118k to $166k
Customer Support12$104k$94k to $106k
Security9$191k$145k to $216k
Research7$311k$293k to $360k
HR6$127k$114k to $160k

Salary by AI level at Datadog

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. In USD a year.

Published salary at Datadog by AI level
AI levelJob postsMedianRange
Builds AI ●●●●11$275k$216k to $335k
Works on AI ●●●○28$196k$175k to $219k
Uses AI ●●○○14$173k$114k to $216k
Little AI ●○○○167$143k$115k to $175k

Salary by country at Datadog

Posts published in USD, grouped by the country of the job.

Published salary at Datadog by country
CountryJob postsMedianRange
United States220$150k$116k to $216k

Other currencies and hourly pay

Shown apart. Amounts are never converted between currencies or between hourly and annual.

  • EUR: 1 job post with a salary, too few for a figure (3 are needed).

Datadog job posts with a salary

The 25 most recent of 221. Pay is shown as the employer published it.

Method

Based on 221 job posts at Datadog with a published salary, read from the live job posts themselves. Each post counts once, at the midpoint of its listed range. Hourly rates are shown apart from annual pay, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out. Currencies are never converted or mixed. No surveys, no self-reported figures. Updated Oct 24, 2026.

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Datadog salary questions, answered from the data

What salary does Datadog pay?

Datadog job posts with a published annual salary in USD have a median of $150k. The middle half of those posts range from $116k to $216k. That is 220 job posts, as of Oct 24, 2026.

Which roles at Datadog list the highest salaries?

Among roles with at least 3 posts that publish a salary, Research has the highest median at $311k, from 7 job posts. The table by role above shows every role that clears the minimum.

Does the salary at Datadog change with how much AI the job involves?

Level rates every job by how central AI is to the work. Median published salaries by level at Datadog: Builds AI $275k, Works on AI $196k, Uses AI $173k, Little AI $143k. Only levels with at least 3 posts that publish a salary are shown.

Where do these Datadog salary figures come from?

From the live job posts at Datadog that list a salary, nothing else. Level takes the midpoint of each listed range, then reports the median and the middle half of posts once there are at least 3. Amounts are never converted between currencies, and amounts whose period is unclear are left out.

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