Senior Software Engineer Distributed Systems (ODP Governance)

Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (ODP Governance)

ODP Governance is a cross platform team working in the biggest Datadog products (Metrics Logs APM) with the mission of giving customers governance tools to control costs and data hygiene of their telemetry.

Our team builds cost controls and governance tools that help Datadogs enterprise customers manage data ingestion reduce unwanted data and prioritize the telemetry that delivers the most value.

Our scope spans multiple Datadog products including Metrics Events Logs and APM. As a backend engineering team we partner with these product teams to address recurring customer challenges that create operational friction increase costs and contribute to churn.

We also identify opportunities to extend successful capabilities across productsfor example adapting a control developed for Logs to support APM.

At Datadog we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds the creativity it brings to the table and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What Youll Do:

• Build performant high scale distributed systems to handle the load of Datadogs biggest products
• Build relationships across teams and independently seek out the information needed to move work forward.
• Become productive in unfamiliar systems and navigate ambiguity.
• Anticipate technical dependencies and integration challenges early.
• Recognize when a solution could benefit another product and take the initiative to explore it.
• Connect engineering decisions to customer value cost efficiency and usability.

Who You Are:

• You have 6 years of experience
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go Java Rust C)
• Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems.
• Excellent communication skills (English).
• High proactivity and cross-team collaboration experience
• Youre excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code solve problems and build or eager to learn how
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate critique and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: Youre 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. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• 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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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