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Datadog Backend Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Datadog Backend Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 11 questions · ~151 min
Total File System Size with Path FilterMedium
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Use recursive traversal and path lookup to calculate total file sizes for the root or a selected directory.

aggregationdfsAlgorithmsDatadog
Build a Simple Regex ParserHard
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Implement a regex matcher for literals, dot wildcards, and star repetition using memoized dynamic programming.

coding challengeAlgorithmsedge casesDatadog
Latency Bucketing CalculatorMedium
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Aggregate positive latencies into fixed-width buckets, with the final bucket containing all overflow values.

aggregationArraysAlgorithmsDatadog
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System Design9 questions · ~124 min
Design Mint.comHard

Design Mint.com as an end-to-end ML system, including transaction intelligence and logs-based monitoring.

data ingestionanomaly detectionfailure modesDatadog
Video Sharing Service DesignHard

Design the ML architecture for personalized video discovery in a YouTube-like sharing service.

ML Rankingdesignml inferenceDatadog
Reddit r/place Style System DesignHard

Design a low-latency ML system that detects coordinated abuse while serving 100,000 simultaneous pixel-grid users.

high-frequency requestsdistributed systemsfailure modesDatadog
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Behavioral & Leadership9 questions · ~124 min
Mentoring a New Team MemberEasy
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Tests mentorship, onboarding judgment, feedback skills, and ownership of a new teammate's growth.

Mentorshipteam integrationadaptabilityDatadog
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More topics1 question · ~14 min
Large-Scale Log ParsingMedium
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Assesses your approach to efficient parsing, correctness, and throughput for high-volume logs.

data processingDatadog
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