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. You will lead the evolution of the Agent Supply Chain, focusing on security, reliability, and speed, and support the growth of the Agent by providing the best platform for development, testing, building, and release. Your responsibilities include participating in release and deployment processes, driving improvements in tooling and workflows, and maximizing velocity and happiness among Agent engineers. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values its office culture. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineer with 5+ years of software development experience and expertise in build pipelines, CI systems, and Linux/macOS packaging. Datadog offers competitive benefits and growth opportunities.

Requirements

• A seasoned engineer with 5+ years of software development experience, mastering one or more programming languages (Go, Python, Java, Rust, Ruby)
• Experienced with build pipelines, CI systems, release tooling and Linux/macOS packaging
• Keen on improving developer experience

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