Staff Engineer - Agent Supply Chain

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and enhance the Agent Organization's CI platform, tooling, processes, and coding to ensure high-quality Datadog Agent releases. You will design and lead projects to improve the Agent supply chain's security, resilience, and scalability. Collaborate with partner teams, support the growth of the Agent, and mentor other engineers. Contribute to short- and long-term planning and product/engineering roadmaps. Ideal candidates have led large cross-team initiatives prioritizing security, speed, and reliability, and possess hands-on experience with CI systems, release management tooling, and cross-platform packaging. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values a strong office culture.

Requirements

• You have led large cross-team initiatives in an environment where security, speed, and reliability are first-order concerns
• You have hands-on experience with supply chain related projects, such as CI systems, release management tooling and Linux/macOS/Windows packaging
• You are able to bring best practices from across the world of software engineering and adapt them to the Agent
• You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become more complete

Responsibilities

• Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the Agent supply chain’s security, resilience and scalability across multiple teams
• Identify potential system risks and trends in security or reliability, design and implement solutions to address them
• Collaborate closely with partner teams that integrate and depend on the Agent to provide critical capabilities to their customers
• 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
• Lead and guide other engineers around you through architectural decisions
• Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning as well as contribute to both the product and engineering roadmaps

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