Senior Software Engineer - Database Monitoring

Summary

Join the Database Monitoring team at Datadog and build industry-revolutionizing products to automatically pinpoint customers’ database problems and proactively improve query performance. You will work on projects such as developing software to recommend performance improvements, creating jobs to assess performance changes in Postgres databases, building a feature to tune database parameters, developing drop-in CI/CD checks, collecting telemetry from SQL client drivers, and leading the development of greenfield tooling for the Postgres ecosystem. The role involves designing, building, and driving high-priority projects, building fault-tolerant software, contributing to the Datadog Agent, writing well-tested code in various languages, and using technologies like Postgres, Kafka, and GRPC. You will have opportunities to author Postgres extensions or contribute to the core. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, along with a wide range of benefits.

Requirements

• You have battle-tested experience with Postgres at scale (e.g. one or more of: autovacuum tuning, partitioning large tables, logical replication, wait event analysis, explain plan analysis, GIN indexes, GUC parameters, pgvector, deadlocks to name a few), and/or have intimate knowledge of internals
• You have experience writing application software which interacts with Postgres
• You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and drive high-priority, high-impact projects like the ones described above
• Build fault-tolerant, scalable software to run in customer environments and the Datadog backend
• Contribute features, fixes, and architecture enhancements to our open-source Datadog Agent collector in Python and Go
• Write precise, well-tested code in Go, Python, and C++, amongst other languages
• Use Postgres, Kafka, and GRPC, alongside other open-source technologies
• Have opportunities to author Postgres extensions (e.g. pg_tracing ) or contribute to core

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
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• A 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• A discounted employee stock purchase plan