Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and become a technical leader, contributing to cutting-edge systems in data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming. You will be an individual contributor, leveraging world-class technical abilities, and a technical leader, tackling design and architectural challenges. You'll participate in the staff engineering community, contributing to company-wide standards. Projects may involve designing data storage engines, leading new product development, or rebuilding critical services. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace model for work-life balance. The role requires significant experience in engineering and technical leadership.

Requirements

• Have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• Have 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Have 4+ years of technical leadership experience, either as a manager or technical leader
• Have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems, either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a company’s engineering org

Responsibilities

• Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
• Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
• Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale

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