Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Foundations
About The Position
Datadog’s Cloud Foundations group is seeking a Staff Engineer to help scale and evolve the critical infrastructure services that power our global platform. This is a high-impact role with the flexibility to focus on one of two key areas: elevating reliability practices across engineering teams, or driving the evolution of internal infrastructure from pure delivery to a user-centric platform approach. You’ll partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional peers to shape how Datadog provisions, secures, and scales our cloud environments—whether through hands-on architectural design, process transformation, or internal product development. 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.
Requirements
- Experienced staff-level engineer with a track record of technical leadership in infrastructure, reliability engineering, or platform development
- Skilled at partnering with teams to improve engineering processes and shipping high-quality code that supports reliability goals
- Comfortable navigating and influencing across domains, including engineering, product, and technical program management
- Strong background working with at least one major cloud provider; bonus if you’ve worked across multiple (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Proficient with Kubernetes and familiar with operating infrastructure in production at scale
- Comfortable learning new tools and systems; able to balance hands-on implementation with broader strategic thinking
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical leader to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure systems
- Collaborate directly with engineering teams to audit, refine, and elevate reliability and operational practices across Cloud Foundations
- Contribute deeply to the architecture and implementation of high-leverage infrastructure components, especially around cloud identity, resource provisioning, and secure access
- Help lead the shift from infrastructure delivery to a platform and internal product model, bringing clarity to user needs and surfacing high-impact opportunities
- Work with cross-functional partners to define golden paths, self-service capabilities, and guardrails that reduce toil while preserving security and performance
- Engage in collaborative technical design and mentorship across a distributed organization of engineers
Benefits
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
