Sara Verdi here, and I'm excited to share with you the story of Benjamin Fernandes, an Engineering Director at Datadog who has grown his career from a gap year engineering internship to leading engineers across Europe for both APM Distributed Tracing and Error Tracking. Through his journey, Benjamin has learned to build large-scale distributed systems and work with customers and product managers to create useful features for the Datadog platform. He credits his growth to the company's core values of being open, pragmatic, and honest, as well as its supportive culture that allows employees to drive projects and learn from each other. As a testament to this, Benjamin shares stories of how he was able to build valuable systems as an intern, including a rate limiting system that is still running today, and how his management team supported him in his transition from individual contributor to manager. With Datadog's unique blend of global software engineering ecosystem exposure and high-stakes problem-solving, Benjamin advises candidates to consider joining the company for opportunities to grow as an engineer and learn from the best.