Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability
Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability
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Job Description
At Datadog were building the platform that enables engineers to monitor secure and scale their infrastructure and applications - powering reliability and performance across thousands of companies. We ingest trillions of data points each day and tackle challenges of scale speed and resilience.
Were looking for experienced backend engineers who want to take ownership of critical services and deepen their expertise in distributed systems. Whether youve built APIs pipelines or backend tooling this role is a chance to grow your impact while learning how to design and operate high-scale high-availability systems that support observability and security products used by engineers around the world.
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:
- Design and build reliable backend services that handle high-throughput globally distributed workloads
- Own core components that power products relied on by thousands of engineering teams worldwide
- Collaborate with other experienced engineers to evolve system architecture with a focus on scalability and resilience
- Learn and apply distributed systems design patterns in a production setting
- Ship production-grade code in languages like Go Python or Java
- Contribute to team culture through code reviews architecture discussions and mentorship of peers and junior engineers
Who You Are:
- You have 5 years of experience building backend software in production using languages like Go Python Java C or Rust
- Youve contributed to the design and development of backend services or APIs and enjoy solving real-world engineering problems
- Youve had some exposure to distributed systems (e.g. fault tolerance messaging scalability) and are excited to deepen your expertise
- You write clean maintainable code and approach system design with thoughtfulness and curiosity
- Youre collaborative and eager to grow your impact by working on high-scale high-reliability systems
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.
Why Join:
- Work with talented engineers who will support your growth in distributed systems and large-scale software design
- Participate in impactful projects from day one with the autonomy to make technical decisions
- Grow your career with access to mentorship programs internal mobility and continuous development resources
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
