Staff Software Engineer - Analytics Data Platform

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Analytics Data Platform department and help scale our data processing platform which enables hundreds of data practitioners and AI Engineers at Datadog to build deploy and operate both batch and stateful streaming data pipelines at scale.

The Analytics Data Platform organization provides a fully managed integrated ecosystem that empowers teams across the company to easily create manage access and use data. Our platform supports customerfacing products that rely on analytical datasuch as Cloud Cost Management Metrics Security Applied AI and Product Analyticsas well as internal analytics use cases. Today we run over 400000 batch jobs per day process millions of events per second in Flink and power data governance and analytical workloads through our Lakehouse offering.

At Datadog we place value in our office culture the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a worklife harmony that best fits them.

What Youll Do:

• Work alongside teams of engineers and steer the design implementation and deployment of scalable data processing infrastructure and tools (Flink Spark PySpark Kubernetes).
• Enable the productization of Datadogs AI effort by supporting Ray in a managed scalable and isolated environment.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to ensure that the platform provides the best infrastructure for Datadogs products.
• Contribute to opensource development of Flink and Spark to make sure they support Datadogs usage.
• Identify scalability reliability and efficiency risks and design solutions to address them driving the growth of batch and streaming frameworks at Datadog.
• Lead and support the team through mentorship technical leadership project prioritization and process improvements.

Who You Are:

• You are a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience driving architecture and for crossteam engineering initiatives focused on distributed systems and stream processing applications
• You care about reliability and efficiency designing resilient and performant systems
• You cut through ambiguity route around blockers and act as a force multiplier for your team enabling them to ship quickly and safely.
• You have experience leading projects that span data engineering data science and infrastructure.
• Youre happy to jump into any part of the stack and do whatevers needed to move a project forward

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 inhouse 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.

Required Experience:

Staff IC