Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and help scale our Alerting Platform, a critical system responsible for defining, scheduling, and ensuring the accuracy of alerts across the platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-impact system that maintains customer trust by delivering reliable notifications. You will focus on the alerting scheduler and state processor, designing and building resilient, high-throughput, real-time systems. The position requires leading cross-team initiatives, making architectural decisions, identifying system risks, and collaborating with partner platforms. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values its office culture, fostering collaboration and creativity. We are looking for candidates with experience leading technical initiatives focused on performance, reliability, and accuracy, and a strong background in backend programming and 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