Senior Staff Engineer - Event Platform Storage
Senior Staff Engineer - Event Platform Storage
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We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Event Platform Storage team. Our Event Platform ingests transforms and stores events to provide more than 30 Datadog products data retrieved by a query API at a rate of 15 Million messages/second. With a focus on a high-level of reliability you will contribute to a platform using Java Go and Rust.
Engineers with a background or interest in the challenges of optimizing distributed systems for durability high availability low latency and scalability are encouraged to apply. Husky Blog Husky Deep Dive
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical platforms at Datadog. This platform provides a scalable exactly-once cost-effective and reliable storage engine for timestamped payloads with a full-featured and fast query engine with multiple integration options.. We have challenges to continue scaling these components and add new features important for our customers. This is an opportunity to accelerate the growth of one of the most profitable parts of the business.
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 work-life harmony that best fits them.
What Youll Do:
- Design and drive high priority high visibility projects that increase the platforms resilience and scalability across multiple teams
- Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed high-throughput real-time systems
- Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them
- Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
- Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the event platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers
Who You Are:
- You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2 years.
- Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization.
- You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance reliability and accuracy are first-order concerns
- You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
- You have significant back end programming experienced and have architected built and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
