Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Datadog as a Staff Engineer and contribute to the security, scalability, and innovation of our Action Platform, a system powering integrations across various products. Collaborate with two teams across New York and Paris to design and implement resilient, high-throughput systems. Lead architectural decisions, identify system risks, and collaborate with partner platforms. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience leading cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment, a passion for performance optimization, and a reliability-oriented mindset. Datadog offers a hybrid workplace and values a strong office culture. We are looking for someone with strong security expertise to deliver scalable, secure solutions that are vital to both our customers and Datadog.

Requirements

• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years
• Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization
• 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 event 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