Senior Staff Software Engineer

About Datadog:

Were 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 scaletrillions of data points per dayproviding 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.

The Opportunity:

Datadogs Senior Staff Engineers are technical leaders operating at the forefront of large-scale systems design building the infrastructure that will support our next five years of growth and beyond. They do this in three major ways:

As individual contributors they bring world-class technical depth to build industry-leading systems in areas such as observability data platforms distributed query engines and real-time event streaming at global scale.

As technical leaders they apply broad architectural perspective and deep systems thinking to align design decisions across teams and domains. They work across complex multi-team problem spaces to define long-term technical direction drive large-scale initiatives forward and ensure consistent execution.

As engineering stewards they play a key role in evolving our systems and engineering culture. They actively participate in Datadogs senior technical community bringing external insights and internal experience to elevate engineering standards and mentor the next generation of technical leaders.

Examples of projects a Senior Staff Engineer may lead include designing and launching a new distributed data storage engine capable of handling hundreds of millions of records per second building the real-time infrastructure behind a new observability product or re-architecting a core service to support exponential growth in throughput and complexity.

What Youll Do:

• Be the technical owner of multiple critical systems or architecture areas often spanning several teams or product lines.
• Drive the design and delivery of high-scale high-impact projects from vision to execution in production.
• Build consensus and alignment across stakeholders on key architectural decisions and long-term strategy.
• Deeply investigate and optimize performance reliability and efficiency in large-scale distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers Directors and VPs across the company to shape Datadogs technical roadmap.
• Guide teams through ambiguity scaling challenges and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
• Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews technical talks and working groups.
  
  

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent practical experience.
• You have 10 years of backend infrastructure or distributed systems engineering experience.
• You have 4 years of experience leading complex technical initiatives and cross-team projects.
  You have designed and delivered systems that are deeply technical highly reliable and serve critical business needs.
• You can navigate and make progress in ambiguous problem spaces identifying the right problems to solve.
• You have exceptional communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared technical vision.
• You have deep expertise in one or more core systems domainssuch as distributed storage event streaming networking data infrastructure or large-scale observabilityand broad awareness of adjacent areas.
• You care about getting things right not just getting them done and you raise the bar for engineering quality around you.

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:

• Get to build tools for software engineers just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled knowledgeable and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development

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