Senior Software Engineer

About the role

About Datadog:

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

You will:

- 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

Who You Are:

- You have significant experience in one or more languages

- You value code simplicity and performance

- You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale

- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

- You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products

- You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs

- 6+ years of experience

Bonus points:

- You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka

- You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before

- You have a strong background in statistics

- You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python

- You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

- You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Benefits and Growth:

- 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