Datadog-posted 10 months ago
$152,000 - $184,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
New York, NY
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our new Community Open Source Engineering team focused on developing Vector and growing its community. Vector is a high-performance observability data pipeline tool and enables users to process and ship billions of logs, metrics, and traces per day. You will play a key role in evolving Vector, ensuring community happiness, optimizing the release process and operations, and more. Community Open Source Engineering is responsible for fostering engagement and guiding development of Datadog's main open source projects outside of the core product and security research areas. The team ensures these projects deliver value to both the open source community and the company by prioritizing community engagement, maintaining software quality and security, and strategically developing new features. As the second member of the team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the future of Community Open Source Engineering and have a significant impact on the team's direction. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

  • Advance the Vector roadmap by proposing and implementing architectural changes to facilitate contributions and reduce maintenance burdens, as well as developing highly requested features.
  • Assist with managing the Vector community, including reviewing external contributions and ensuring codebase quality, triaging reported issues, and answering questions on GitHub Discussions.
  • Define the project governance by establishing contribution guidelines and continuously improving processes to minimize friction for all stakeholders.
  • Collect data to assess project health and usage, identifying areas for improvement.
  • Actively evangelize Vector to expand its reach and impact.
  • Experience managing an OSS project with a community of internal and external users and contributors.
  • At least 3-5 years of experience with systems-level programming, preferably using Rust or a similar language.
  • Proficient written communicator, able to clearly articulate thoughts across a team.
  • Ability to ship fast, overcome blockers with a practical mindset, and cut through ambiguity.
  • Passionate about developer experience and reducing friction for maintainers and contributors.
  • Experience with GitHub Actions and/or release management for complex software projects.
  • Experience working on extract-transform-load tools or stream processing systems.
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
  • Competitive global benefits.
  • Giving programs.
© 2024 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service