Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and contribute to the scaling of our critical Alerting Platform. You will design and implement solutions to enhance the platform's resilience and scalability, focusing on the alerting scheduler and state processor. This role demands leadership in architectural decisions for high-throughput, real-time systems and collaboration with multiple teams. You will be responsible for identifying and mitigating system risks, contributing to long-term planning, and working closely with partner platforms. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values a strong office culture. We are looking for candidates with experience leading cross-team initiatives and a deep understanding of building reliable, high-scale distributed systems.

Requirements

• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns
• You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
• You have significant back end programming experienced and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale

Responsibilities

• Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform's resilience and scalability across multiple teams
• Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them
• Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
• Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the alerting platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers

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