Datadog (DDOG): hiring and filings, side by side
Two independent records on the same company. What Datadog tells a regulator, and what it is doing on its own careers page. Neither is a comment on the other, which is exactly why they are worth reading together.
Why this page is not somewhere else. Trading-signal vendors sell the filings and workforce-data vendors sell the hiring, but the two are rarely joined on the same company in the same window. The hiring side here is read from the employer's own applicant tracking system rather than scraped from a job board, every filing links back to the document on SEC EDGAR, and each score states the inputs it was built from so you can recompute it instead of trusting it.
What it is hiring right now
| Open roles | 444 |
| Departments | 40 |
| Countries | 20 |
| Flagged remote by the employer | 54 |
| Roles first seen in the last 14 days | 67 |
| Roles we have seen close | 293 |
Where the hiring sits: Enterprise Sales (67), Dev Eng (43), Enterprise Sales Engineering (33), Channels & Alliances (27), Product Management (21).
Where the roles are: United States (213), France (53), Japan (39), Singapore (20).
How that number is moving
Over the 7 days to 2026-10-03: 26 roles opened, 33 closed, -7 net - more closed than opened.
Across 28 readings the average is -1.0 per window. The window rolls daily, so consecutive readings overlap; the direction is the signal, not any single figure.
A large company always has hundreds of open roles, so the count on its own says little. The direction does.
What it filed
2026-09-23 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 100/100
value: $10,696,859 · approx sale date: 2026-09-23 · role: Director · seller: ALEXIS T LEQUOC
2026-09-21 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 67/100
value: $689,760 · approx sale date: 2026-09-21 · role: Officer · seller: DAVID OBSTLER CHILDREN 2019 TRUST FBO ANDREW OBSTLER
2026-09-21 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 67/100
value: $689,760 · approx sale date: 2026-09-21 · role: Officer · seller: David Obstler Children 2019 Trust FBO Alison Obstler
2026-09-21 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $2,299,200 · approx sale date: 2026-09-21 · role: Officer · seller: DAVID OBSTLER
2026-09-14 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $1,167,989 · approx sale date: 2026-09-14 · role: Officer · seller: Kerry Acocella
2026-09-14 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $2,654,520 · approx sale date: 2026-09-14 · role: Officer · seller: DAVID OBSTLER CHILDREN 2019 TRUST FBO ALISON OBSTLER
2026-09-14 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $2,654,520 · approx sale date: 2026-09-14 · role: Officer · seller: DAVID OBSTLER CHILDREN 2019 TRUST FBO ANDREW OBSTLER
2026-09-14 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $8,848,400 · approx sale date: 2026-09-14 · role: Officer · seller: DAVID OBSTLER
2026-09-11 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $2,596,341 · approx sale date: 2026-09-11 · role: Officer · seller: Sean Walters
2026-09-11 - Planned insider sale (Form 144) - score 87/100
value: $2,815,844 · approx sale date: 2026-09-11 · role: Officer · seller: YANBING LI
Reading the two together
Over the last 7 days this company's open-role count was shrinking (-7: 26 opened against 33 closed). In the same period, 12 notices of intent to sell were filed for a combined $55,377,815, by Alexis T Lequoc and David Obstler and 7 others (director/officer). These are published by different teams on different calendars, for different reasons. Neither explains the other, and this page does not claim it does.
Being straight about what this is
Not advice. This page reports what two public sources say. It does not tell you what to do with that, and the direction of one does not predict the other.
Some scores are built on incomplete inputs. Where a filing does not publish every term the formula uses, the record carries inputs_complete: false and the score is still shown. The gap is reported, not filled in with a guess.
A short observation window. We started recording opens and closes on this set in August 2026, so "what changed" is weeks deep, not years. It grows daily. The filings themselves reach back as far as the publisher provides.
Refreshed once a night. Not real time, and some publishers are slower by nature: congressional trades weekly, institutional holdings quarterly.
Names come from the filing. Where a person is named, that name is a required disclosure field in the public filing itself, and the link above goes to it.
Everything above for this company in one API call:
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ds_live_your_key" \
"https://datasignalslab.com/v1/companies/DDOG/events?limit=100"
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