Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog's APM team as a Staff Engineer to lead new projects and shape the product roadmap. Collaborate with engineering and product managers to design and implement initiatives across the stack. Provide technical leadership, guide other engineers, and contribute to engineering practices. Build customer empathy by directly interacting with customers and incorporating their feedback into product design. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of relevant engineering experience and 4+ years of technical leadership experience, along with deep backend programming expertise and a customer-first mindset. Datadog offers competitive benefits and growth opportunities, including stock equity, professional development, and a supportive company culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including both effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• Deep backend programming expertise — you’ve architected, built, and operated complex systems at scale
• Customer-first mindset and a strong drive to build products that meet real needs
• You care deeply about product quality and have clear, thoughtful perspectives on how things should work
• You value simplicity and clean design in systems, interfaces, and user experiences
• You have a track record of taking full ownership of ambiguous and complex problems and turning them into solutions that deliver real value

Responsibilities

• Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to make APM the best performance insights product on the market
• Provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries to ensure maximum delivery efficiency
• Support and guide other engineers through product and architectural platform decisions
• Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led planning and roadmaps
• Collaborate with internal product teams to design solutions that meet our customer needs
• Recognize meaningful problems to solve, prototype what a solution would look like and drive the implementation end to end
• Build customer empathy by talking directly to customers
• Share thoughtful perspectives on how the user experience should look like and collaborate with UX designers and to drive improvements

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience developing web applications

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