Datadog salary: $214K median
From 206 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$214Kmedian advertised salary
$175K – $243Kmiddle half of roles
$214Kaverage advertised salary
206roles counted
Datadog salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $232K, 12% more than senior roles ($206K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $206K | $180K–$230K | 75 |
| Lead and above | $232K | $208K–$262K | 54 |
| No level in title | $190K | $158K–$243K | 76 |
Datadog salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $228K | 78 |
| 🇺🇸California | $224K | 85 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $215K | 191 |
| 🇺🇸New York | $215K | 59 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $310K | 3 |
| Sierra | $310K | 3 |
| Astronomer | $265K | 9 |
| Hims & Hers | $260K | 5 |
| Block | $256K | 7 |
| EarnIn | $254K | 3 |
| Harvey | $245K | 6 |
| Justworks | $243K | 6 |
| Synthesia | $234K | 7 |
| Wayve | $224K | 3 |
| LangChain | $220K | 6 |
| Braze | $218K | 10 |
| Instacart | $217K | 4 |
| Vercel | $215K | 3 |
| Pallet | $214K | 4 |
| CoreWeave | $212K | 5 |
| Coinbase | $197K | 6 |
| Flex | $195K | 4 |
| Airwallex | $190K | 3 |
| Agility Robotics | $181K | 4 |
| Fingerprint | $178K | 3 |
| Aviatrix | $174K | 3 |
| INSTALILY.AI | $170K | 3 |
| Databricks | $162K | 3 |
| Chime | $158K | 5 |
Highest-paying open Datadog roles
All Datadog jobs- Software Engineer, Resilience EngineeringOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$230K - $490KTerraformKubernetesDatadog
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, APIAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$405K - $485KLeadRustGoPython
- Staff Product Manager - ObservabilityLambda · Bellevue Office$291K - $430KLeadMachine LearningPyTorchDatadog
- Member of Technical Staff (Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KRustGoPython
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Senior Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureDecagon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- AI Infrastructure EngineerMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonC++GCP
- Staff Software Engineer, Cash App BankingBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$264K - $395KLeadJavaKotlinKafka
- Staff Software Engineer, Cash App BankingBlock · 🇺🇸New York, NY, United States of America$264K - $395KLeadJavaKotlinKafka
- Principal Software EngineerAstronomer · 🇺🇸New York City$277K - $390KLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)Sierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KTerraformLLMCI/CD
- Deployed Infrastructure EngineerSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$230K - $390KGoTerraformLLM
- Manager, Software Engineering - AI ObservabilityFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$258K - $376KMachine LearningLLMAI
- Strategic Account Executive, NortheastAstronomer · 🇺🇸New York City$340K - $375KRemoteAirflowDatadog
- Senior Network EngineerLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$250K - $370KSeniorPythonTerraformGCP
- Technical Program Manager, Safeguards (Infrastructure & Evals)Anthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$290K - $365KDatadog
- Principal AI ArchitectRubrik · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$254K - $356KLeadPythonJavaGCP
- Staff Platform EngineerCalendly · 🇺🇸Remote - US$239K - $347KRemoteLeadGoGCPLinux
- Strategic Account ExecutiveSynthesia · 🇺🇸New York City$300K - $340KDatadog
- Staff Software Engineer, DatabasesHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$191K - $325KLeadGoPythonSQL
Questions about Datadog pay
- What is the average Datadog salary?
- $214K a year on average and $214K at the median, across 206 open Datadog postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $175K to $243K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Datadog pay?
- Sierra ($310K), Lambda ($310K), Astronomer ($265K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Datadog roles at tech companies is $214K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $175K to $243K. Counted from 206 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/datadog/
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