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FP&A Analyst
Datadog INC · 🇺🇸 New York, New York, USA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 64 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Datadog INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst” (Financial and Investment Analysts) in NY: $124k–$124k, median $124k. Most were filed at wage level I (100%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Datadog INC
The US Department of Labor certified 64 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 14 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. 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 d