Senior Software Engineer

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service.
• Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags.
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns.
• Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic.
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next.

• Significant experience in one or more languages.
• Value code simplicity and performance.
• Can design architecture to solve problems at high scale.
• BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
• Want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products.
• Can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs.
• 6+ years of experience.

• Worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka.
• Wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before.
• Strong background in statistics.
• Significant experience with Go, C, or Python.
• Excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how.
• Motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space.
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility.
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds.
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health.
• Generous global benefits.