Datadog Wins Coveted Spot on Crain’s New York Business “Best Places to Work in New York City” 2015 List
NEW YORK – September 21, 2015 – Datadog, the leading SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud applications, has been named one of the Best Places to Work in New York City by Crain’s New York Business. This year’s list is comprised of 100 companies, and is the publication’s eighth annual competition.
The survey and award program, a joint effort of Crain’s New York Business and Best Companies Group, identifies, recognizes and honors the best employers in New York City, benefiting the city’s economy, workforce and businesses.
“Providing a great SaaS experience to our customers starts with a smart, enterprising and inclusive work environment,” said Datadog CEO and co-founder, Olivier Pomel. “This award is proof that Datadog’s commitment to attracting, developing and retaining talented employees is a key driver behind our continued innovation and rapid growth.”
Founded in New York City in 2010, Datadog is a monitoring service that brings together data from servers, databases, applications, tools and services to present a unified view of the applications that run at scale in the cloud. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform that enables Dev and Ops teams to work collaboratively on the infrastructure to avoid downtime, resolve performance problems and ensure that development and deployment cycles finish on time.
Datadog today services thousands of customers, such as Adobe, Airbnb, Netflix, Spotify, EA, MercadoLibre, Lonely Planet, Salesforce, and monitors hundreds of thousands of servers in 42 countries. The company currently employs more than 135 people worldwide with offices in New York and Boston. Datadog is backed by some of the nation’s leading venture capital firms, including Index Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners and RTP Ventures.
An alphabetical listing of the 100 companies named as “Best Places to Work in New York City” appeared on Crain’s New York Business website, www.crainsnewyork.com, on September 18, 2015. Crain’s New York Business will report, publish and promote the numerical rankings online at www.crainsnewyork.com on Friday, December 4th and in Crain’s New York Business’ print edition on Monday, December 7th. The data was supplied by contracted independent research firm Best Companies Group, which is responsible for the entire registration and survey process, analysis of the data and final rankings. Crain’s New York Business only reports on the results of the data provided by Best Companies Group.
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About Datadog
Datadog is a monitoring service that brings together data from servers, databases, applications, tools, and services to present a unified view of the applications that run at scale in the cloud. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform that enables Dev and Ops teams to work collaboratively to avoid downtime, resolve performance problems, and ensure that development and deployment cycles finish on time.
To learn more about careers at Datadog, please visit jobs.datadoghq.com.
About Crain’s New York Business
For more than 25 years, Crain’s New York Business has been the award-winning news source for New York’s business leaders, telling the story of the New York economy, while serving as a voice and advocate for the city’s business community. Reporting through the prism of business, Crain’s helps its readers stay on top of the inner workings of New York’s economic and political ecosystem, uncover new business opportunities and connect with the broader New York business community.
Best Companies Group (BCG) is dedicated to establishing “Best Places to Work,” “Best Companies” and “Best Employers” programs to identify and recognize workplaces that nurture a superior level of employee satisfaction and engagement. BCG researches the dynamics and characteristics of employers in numerous geographic regions and industries, both nationally and internationally, and then produces annual “Best” lists of the organizations that are leading the way in defining the employee experience of the 21st century.
For more information on the Best Places to Work in New York City program, visit www.BestPlacesToWorkNYC.com.
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