Senior Data Engineer - Revenue Data Platform
About The Position
The Revenue Data Engineering Teams designs, builds and runs the data pipelines and helper systems to accurately and in a timely manner quantify our customers’ usage across all Datadog products. This team is at the leading edge of any new product we release. The Revenue Data Processing team builds and operates the data pipelines that does billing, and cost attribution for all Datadog products. We process terabytes of data daily to power revenue-critical systems and are at the center of every new product launch at Datadog. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own meaningful parts of a large-scale, mission-critical processing platform — driving architectural improvements, building new billing capabilities, and maintaining the high reliability bar our downstream consumers depend on.
Requirements
- Significant experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale using Spark and Airflow
- Comfortable owning complex, cross-functional investigations and driving them to resolution
- Understand how to balance feature delivery with platform health and technical debt
- Strong analytical instincts and are rigorous about correctness in data systems
- Work well in ambiguous environments and can drive alignment across stakeholder teams
- Care about code quality, maintainability, and operational excellence
- Eligible for any required authorizations from the US government
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Apache Iceberg or Lakehouse architectures
- Worked on billing, metering, or financial data systems
- Experience with low-latency data serving or real-time aggregation pipelines
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-throughput data pipelines for billing and cost attribution
- Drive platform improvements — latency reduction, Spark optimization, sharding, and cross-datacenter reliability
- Own root-cause investigations on billing accuracy issues in collaboration with Finance and Product teams
- Contribute to new billing features
- Work across Python and Scala, with technologies including Spark, Airflow, Trino, and Apache Iceberg
- Participate in on-call rotation and maintain a high reliability bar for production systems
- Contribute to engineering standards and help grow the technical culture of the team
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- May include variable compensation
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
