Datadog

FP&A Analyst

Datadog 📍 New York, USA 🏢 On-site Posted Sep 22, 2026 via Datadog careers
full-time 📂 Finance & Accounting 🏢 On-site 🏭 Technology

✨ Job Highlights

  • ★Pay: $99,000 to $132,000 a year
  • ★On-site: New York
  • ★Full-time role in finance & accounting
  • ★Experience asked for: 2+ years
  • ★Education: Bachelor's degree
  • ★Apply directly on Datadog's careers site
  • ★Posted September 22, 2026

Full Job Description

FP&A Analyst job at Datadog in New York

There is a FP&A Analyst vacancy at Datadog, and the role is based in New York. This is full-time work at Datadog's location. The salary range published with the job is $99,000 to $132,000 a year.

Here is the role as Datadog describes it.

About Datadog

Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We bring together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

The Team

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team analyzes company financial data (revenue, customers, headcount, expenses, etc.) in order to support the business’ growth and success. Within FP&A, the R&D Finance team enables the financial strategy behind Datadog’s Engineering and Product organizations. We partner directly with technical leadership to drive decision-making around our most critical investments. Your work will be highly cross-functional and play a pivotal role in connecting the dots across the organization through a financial lens, ensuring operational alignment and informing decision making.

The Opportunity

As a part of the R&D Finance team, this person will be key in supporting our product and engineering leadership team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, you will help create our annual budget and financial targets and work with operational leaders to support execution against our goals. Your work will be highly cross-functional and strategic, and you will play a pivotal role in connecting the dots across the organization through a financial lens, in order to help ensure operational alignment and inform decision making.

What You’ll Do

  • Partner with senior business leaders to manage their departmental budgets on a regular basis, including but not limited to the company’s co-founder and CTO
  • Manage financial forecasts and analytics, which include data across revenue, customers, product, company expenses, and headcount / workforce.
  • Help manage significant portions of the company’s spend, including but not limited to AI and GPU spend across the company.
  • Work on trend, ROI, and profitability analyses on both product and customer levels to support data-driven decision making
  • Work with finance management on quarterly Board materials, including coordination and consolidation across stakeholders
  • Assist in planning and budgeting cycles, ensuring consistency in tools, templates, and processes across the organization
  • Work on ad hoc projects and strategic initiatives for senior management, which may include assessing potential acquisition opportunities and/or negotiations with strategic partners like cloud vendors
  • Become proficient with various financial planning and business intelligence (BI) tools, including but not limited to Pigment, Tableau, and Metabase
  • Who You Are

  • 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A / Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, and/or other related field
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics
  • Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint with proven experience in building financial models and managing complex data
  • You are a clear, concise communicator and team player with a humble mindset and ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Bonus Points

  • Solid understanding of Pigment is a plus, but not required
  • Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model
  • Proficiency in use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude)
  • Benefits and Growth:

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  • Work Location (Hybrid)

    At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role will require you to work in the office 3 days per week, and flexible the remainder.

    #LI-Hybrid

    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.

    The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $99,000 to $132,000 USD

    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.

    Equal Opportunity at Datadog

    Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

    Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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    Common questions

    How much does this FP&A Analyst job pay?

    Datadog advertises $99,000 to $132,000 a year for this role.

    Is the FP&A Analyst position remote?

    No, it is an on-site job in New York.

    What does Datadog look for in candidates?

    The posting mentions at least 2 years of relevant experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent and skills such as Tableau, Excel and FP&A. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply for the FP&A Analyst job?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Datadog's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    Is this job still open?

    Datadog published the role on September 22, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Datadog careers page (careers.datadoghq.com). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Tableau Excel FP&A

    🏢 About Datadog

    We tackle some of the hardest technical problems while delivering a product that "just works" for our customers. And we are backed by some of the best VCs in NYC and the world. Do you want to make a difference? Are you exceptional at your job, and intrinsically motivated by it? Do you eat hard problems for breakfast and find them beautifully simple solutions by lunchtime? Do you ever wish you were there in the early days of these startups everyone is talking about? If so, we want to hear…

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    🏢 Company Datadog
    📍 Location New York, USA
    💼 Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode 🏢 On-site
    🏭 Industry Technology
    🗓 Posted Date Sep 22, 2026
    🔗 Via Datadog careers
    🎯 Experience 2+ years
    🎓 Education Bachelor's degree
    📅 Deadline Dec 16, 2034

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