Staff Software Engineer – Logs Observability Pipelines

Datadog•New York, NY

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines and on-prem log management into a seamless customer experience. This role will focus on building and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. You will operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architecture, cross-team delivery, and product direction across a complex and evolving space. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and solve deeply technical challenges at scale. 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

You have experience building and operating software deployed in customer-managed or on-prem environments, not just SaaS platforms
You have strong expertise in distributed systems, including scalability, performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing
You are proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., Go, Rust, or C++) and understand how software runs across diverse environments (e.g., Linux systems)
You have experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and are comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure and networking issues
You are experienced with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes in production environments
You have a track record of leading large, cross-functional engineering efforts and influencing technical direction across teams

Responsibilities

Drive the architecture and technical direction for unifying observability pipelines and on-prem observability storage into a cohesive BYOC Logs experience
Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments
Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects
Design and implement software that runs reliably within customer-managed infrastructure, including on-prem and cloud environments
Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning
Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments