Senior Platform Engineer

Paris - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

As a Senior Engineer on the Agent Onboarding team youll build the core infrastructure that powers how customers deploy Datadog at Datadog Agent is software that runs on customer infrastructure and supports a wide range of platforms. It collects observability data from hosts and sends them to Datadog where our customer can analyze their monitoring and performance data. Agent Onboarding team is responsible for developing and maintaining tooling for deploying and managing Agents across a wide infrastructure role focuses on the Kubernetes Operator a critical product that automates Agent deployment for many of our largest and most complex customers. Your work will directly shape how users experience and trust Datadog from day one making observability easier to adopt in diverse environmentsfrom bare metal to containers to managed Kubernetes also maintain key integrations with infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible and Puppet helping customers manage Agents through the systems they already rely on. This is a hands-on engineering role with a high impact on product usability customer experience and the long-term operability of large-scale systems.

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:

Lead development and ongoing maintenance of the Kubernetes Operator that manages the Agent lifecycle supporting the deployment patterns of our largest customer segment.
Improve and maintain the Helm chart and associated tooling for deploying the Datadog Agent into Kubernetes environments.
Support a broad range of deployment environmentsincluding virtual machines hosts macOS containers and bare metalby evolving our tooling built on open-source systems such as Ansible Puppet
Contribute to and maintain open-source repositories and ensuring long-term stability and usability.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver solutions that integrate cleanly into a wide variety of infrastructure setups.

Who You Are:

You have 10 years of experience with a mixed background including platform / infrastructure engineering and software development.
As a developer you are comfortable using various programming languages (Go Python Java Rust c c#...).
Youre experienced (and eager to deepen your expertise) with Kubernetes and its ecosystem (Operators...).
You enjoy working in open-source and youre comfortable contributing to and maintaining public-facing projects.
You take a pragmatic customer-focused approach to building reliable tools and you already led multiple technical projects in your career.

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)
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