Staff Software Engineer - Synthetics
Staff Software Engineer - Synthetics
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Job Description
Datadogs Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth. They do this in three major ways:
- As individual contributors they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization virtual runtime profiling and planet scale streaming.
- As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization charting the right course then leading delivery.
- In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what weve built before and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering.
Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale.
The Synthetics product is moving fast to ascertain its thought leadership on Digital Experience Monitoring by introducing AI-powered capabilities. To guarantee the success of the product the Synthetic group is searching for a Staff Engineer who could drive that motion from a technical point of view.
At Datadog we value our office culture the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business.
- Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production.
- Bring expertise in systems with AI in the loop.
Who You Are:
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- 10 years of relevant engineering experience
- 4 years of technical leadership experience either as a manager or technical leader
- You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a companys engineering org.
- You have proven experience in systems with AI in the loop on critical paths of user journeys.
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)
- Competitive global benefits
- Giving programs
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
Employment Type
Full-Time
