I recently had a recruiter from them email for hybrid positions with no remote so take that as you will

Edit: 15 remote engineering positions open out of 219 total on their career site

Good fit considering they’ve both embraced remote, preventing potential value destruction by an acquirer. DataDog also going big into cloud security recently with product releases, so perhaps a more engineering/dev focused Wiz “grow and roll up” play. DataDog and Gitlab combined would be worth almost $45B.

But their products are quite different. There's a large market that self-hosts GitLab for data soverignity reasons, and Datadog has no such offering.

I'm a GitLab user, I can't use Datadog because our customer contracts forbid data leaving the system (PHI, BAA won't suffice). I would reconsider GitLab if they were acquired.

Out of interest -- Why put PHI in your SCM? If you're just wrangling code but not actual data SaaS should be kosher.

We don't put PHI in repos, the CI platform has access to the infrastructure to deploy, which means any potential compromise would expose PHI.

M&A w/ Bitbucket could also be interesting.

I don't dislike Github but prefer Bitbucket, I feel they're a bit underappreciated, in part due to the massive market share that Github has. This could help turn things around.