Senior Software Engineer

About Datadog:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams.  We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

You will:

Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service

Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags

Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic

With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Who You Are :

You have significant experience in one or more languages

You value code simplicity and performance

You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale

You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products

You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs6+ years of experience

Bonus points:

You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before

You have a strong background in statistics

You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn howYou’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Benefits and Growth:
Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space

Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan

Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health Generous global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.#LI-MF3#LI-Hybrid Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:$192,000—$240,000 USDAbout Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity  brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place,…