Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center. 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.
Requirements
- Significant experience in one or more languages
- Value code simplicity and performance
- Can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
- BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- Want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
- Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
- 6+ years of experience
Nice To Haves
- Worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
- Wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
- Strong background in statistics
- Significant experience with Go, C, or Python
- Excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
- Motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- 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
