Senior Staff Engineer - Event Platform Storage

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We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Event Platform Storage team. Our platform ingests, transforms and stores events to provide more than 30 Datadog products data retrieved by a query API at a rate of ~15 million messages/second. With a focus on reliability, you will contribute to a platform using Java, Go and Rust. Engineers with a background or interest in optimizing distributed systems for durability, high availability, low latency and scalability are encouraged to apply.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical platforms  platform provides a scalable, exactly-once, cost-effective, and reliable storage engine for timestamped payloads with a fast query engine and multiple integration options. We have challenges to continue scaling these components and add new features important for our customers.

Datadog offers a hybrid workplace to support work-life harmony and collaboration.

• Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform's resilience and scalability across multiple teams
• Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
• Identify potential system risks and reliability trends, and design solutions to address them
• Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
• Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the event platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers

• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years
• Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns
• You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
• You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale

• Build tools for software engineers and use the tools you build to accelerate development
• Influence product direction and impact on the business
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are eager to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

Benefits listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. 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. Datadog offers a wide range of benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and an employee stock purchase plan.

The estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $272,000—$340,000 USD
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