Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog's Database Monitoring team and revolutionize the database performance monitoring industry. You will design and lead high-impact projects focused on improving Postgres performance and building innovative tooling. This role requires deep Postgres expertise, experience contributing to Postgres or related tooling, and a passion for creating exceptional customer experiences. You'll be a technical leader, driving product adoption and defining scalable architectures. Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity, along with comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401k, paid time off, and more.

Requirements

• You have strong familiarity with Postgres internals
• You have contributed directly to Postgres in the past and/or have substantial contributions to tooling in the relational database ecosystem
• 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 and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects like the ones described above
• Provide technical leadership to the Database Monitoring team and peer teams
• Be a driving force in growing the product’s adoption by 10X
• Define enduring architectures to support a rapidly growing team and user base
• Author Postgres extensions for increased performance visibility (e.g. pg_tracing)
• Identify and contribute core changes to Postgres relating to the query protocol, pg_stat* views, and more
• Develop heuristics and automated recommendations for customers’ workloads such as optimal autovacuum settings and GUC parameter tuning
• Build observability telemetry into client-side language drivers (e.g. JDBC) and connection pools
• Lead development of greenfield tooling for the Postgres ecosystem from the ground up

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Variable compensation
• Healthcare
• Dental
• Parental planning
• Mental health benefits
• A 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• A discounted employee stock purchase plan