Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Software Engineer to develop high-performance OTel observability pipelines within the Datadog Agent. You will simplify customer onboarding and management of OTel pipelines using Fleet Management capabilities, review community contributions, and investigate and fix issues. Collaborate with your team to drive product decisions and plan future projects. This role requires 5+ years of software development experience, proficiency in languages like Go, Java, Rust, .NET, or C/C++, and a passion for code simplicity and performance. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values its office culture, fostering collaboration and creativity. The company prioritizes employee growth and provides various benefits.

Requirements

• You have been building software for 5+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
• You have significant experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Rust, .NET or C/C++
• You value code simplicity and performance
• You are data driven and use observability products
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You are motivated by solving problems for our customers

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance OTel observability pipelines in the Datadog Agent, running on customers’ infrastructures and targeting a large number of platforms / environments / deployment models, with Datadog-specific and upstream OpenTelemetry contributions
• Simplify customers’ onboarding and management of OTel pipelines with Fleet Management capabilities
• Review community contributions to Datadog-related components of OTel
• Take part in investigating and fixing issues with the internal production deployment of the Datadog Agent
• With your team, be a driving force in product decisions and plan the most important projects to work on next

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience building and shipping packaged or downloadable software
• You are familiar with OpenTelemetry
• You have contributed to or have an official role in Open Source projects
• You have significant experience in using profilers, debuggers, tracers, or similar tools to improve the code quality of the software you’re writing

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