After Datadog
- 2%Founded something3
- 14%Joined a startup19
- 27%Joined a big company35
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Datadog most often go to Meta, Stripe and Amazon. Of them, 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Datadog's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 360 people on a map of 67,181, No. 61 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3600.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 23666% of the people here
- Moved on
- 12434% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (7% of recorded departures).
107 of 396 recorded arrivals shown, 289 more from 251 other companies44 of 138 recorded departures shown, 94 more to 83 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
23%1-2y
39%2-4y
21%4-7y
2%7y+
321 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<314
0015
3016
6317
12318
121019
43620
412621
573422
713823
972624
592325
141026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 416 joined, 180 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 259 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer154
- Software Engineer Intern91
- Senior Software Engineer79
- Software Engineer II65
- Engineering Manager34
- Staff Software Engineer21
- Senior Engineering Manager13
- Solutions Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 2%Exceptional5 people
- 21%Strong55 people
- 51%Solid132 people
- 24%Emerging63 people
- 2%Unproven4 people
259 of the 360 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
60 of the 259 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 23%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
43%Titles that rose92 of 216 classified people
- 43%Rose92 people
- 55%Stayed level119 people
- 2%Fell5 people
216 of the 360 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- University of Waterloo7.9%
- Carnegie Mellon7.0%
- Georgia Tech6.5%
- Cornell5.4%
- MIT5.1%
- UC Berkeley5.1%
- Columbia4.2%
- Northeastern2.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 355 people here with a school on file.
28 of the 355 people here with a school on file list University of Waterloo, 25 list Carnegie Mellon and 23 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile
153 of the 360 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
74% of the people who have worked at Datadog and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Datadog
Everyone on the map
- 74%New York268 · map 18%
- 14%SF Bay Area52 · map 41%
- 3%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 1%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 1%Boston4 · map 2%
- 6%Somewhere else20
All 360 people who worked at Datadog list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Datadog: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Datadog, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 360 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Datadog: 236 are there now, 124 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 9 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Stripe and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 27 people. Then Meta and Google.
- Median tenure at Datadog: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Datadog, 2% went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 27% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 259 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: University of Waterloo, listed by 28 of the 355 people here with one on file (7.9%). Then Carnegie Mellon (25).
- 74% of the 360 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 43% of the 360 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 92 rose, 119 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 216 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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