Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and empower a 100+ engineer team to deliver high-quality Datadog Agent releases. You will design and lead projects enhancing the Agent's supply chain security, resilience, and scalability. Collaborate with partner teams, support Agent growth, and guide other engineers in architectural decisions. Contribute to short- and long-term planning and roadmaps. This role requires experience leading cross-team initiatives focused on security, speed, and reliability, along with hands-on experience with CI systems and release management. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and a comprehensive benefits package.

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become more complete

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