Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Software Engineer to contribute to the development and improvement of OpenTelemetry pipelines within the Datadog Agent. You will build high-performance observability pipelines, simplify customer onboarding, review community contributions, and participate in issue resolution. This role requires 5+ years of software development experience, proficiency in languages like Go, Java, or C++, and a passion for code simplicity and performance. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional development. The ideal candidate values collaboration, problem-solving, and working in a fast-paced environment. We encourage applications from individuals passionate about technology, even if they don't meet all qualifications.

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