Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and drive high-value projects impacting our Log Management platform. You will lead technical initiatives focused on performance, cost efficiency, and scalability of our large-scale distributed systems. This role involves collaborating with multiple teams, mentoring engineers, and contributing to product and engineering roadmaps. Datadog offers a hybrid work environment and values a strong office culture. We are seeking a candidate with extensive experience in backend programming, distributed systems, and cross-team leadership. Competitive benefits and professional development opportunities are provided.

Requirements

• You have led large cross-team initiatives
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns
• You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale

Responsibilities

• Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams
• Provide technical leadership across several areas of the platform
• Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions that rely on distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
• Collaborate closely with design partners, product managers and platform engineering teams to quickly iterate on proof of concept capabilities
• Design and build highly resilient architectures
• 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)
• Competitive global benefits
• Giving programs