Senior Build & Release Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Senior Systems Engineer and empower a 100+ engineer team to build and release high-quality Datadog Agent releases. Lead the evolution of the Agent Supply Chain, focusing on security, reliability, and speed. Support the growth of the Agent by providing the best platform for development, testing, building, and release. Participate in and improve release and deployment processes. Drive necessary changes in tooling, workflows, and culture to maximize velocity and engineer happiness. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values a strong office culture. The role requires 5+ years of software development experience and expertise in build pipelines, CI systems, and release tooling.

Requirements

• A seasoned engineer with 5+ years of software development experience
• Experienced with build pipelines, CI systems, release tooling and Linux/macOS packaging
• Keen on improving developer experience
• Strong in at least one programming language and comfortable with scripting languages (python, bash)
• Someone that enjoys working with other teams across the company, putting internal and external customers’ interests first

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolutions of the Agent Supply Chain, focusing on security, reliability, and speed
• Support the growth of the Agent, welcoming new products and new engineering teams, providing the best platform to develop, test, build and release the Agent
• Participate in the release and deployment processes, finding ways to continuously improve lead times and reliability
• Drive the required changes in tooling, workflows, and culture to maximize velocity and happiness of the Agent engineers

Benefits

• 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)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Operate as a hybrid workplace