Staff Software Engineer Workflow Engine

The Opportunity

Were looking for an experienced engineer to join Datadogs Workflow Engine Team the group behind Atlas our platform for building reliable long-running workflows as code. Atlas is built on Temporal the leading open-source workflow orchestration technology and plays a central role in how Datadog builds complex distributed systems at scale. We work closely with the Temporal community and have contributed upstream improvements in areas like reliability performance and developer tooling strengthening both Atlas and the broader ecosystem.

As a Staff Engineer youll help shape the future of Atlas: evolving its architecture improving performance and resilience and making it the go-to workflow platform across Datadog. Youll collaborate with other senior engineers and product teams to solve hard distributed systems challenges while mentoring teammates and contributing to our engineering culture. This is a high-impact role with direct influence on how Datadog builds and operates critical workflows powering our products and services.

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 implement high-scale reliable and durable workflow execution infrastructure on top of Temporal
• Lead the evolution of Atlas to meet Datadogs growing scale and reliability needs running many million of actions per minute
• Support Datadogs AI initiatives by evolving Atlas into the orchestration backbone for AI agents and enabling an AI-first development mindset internally
• Partner with platform and product teams to make Atlas the standard for orchestrating workflows company-wide
• Drive technical strategy for resilience durability and performance optimization
• Mentor engineers and foster best practices in distributed systems development

Who You Are:

• 8 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems in production
• Deep expertise in systems programming workflow orchestration or related domains (job scheduling stream processing etc.)
• Experience designing for durability and correctness in stateful systems
• Skilled at making architectural decisions and leading complex projects
• Fluent in at least one systems-level language (e.g. Go Java C Rust)
• Collaborative with a track record of mentoring and growing other engineers
• Youre excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code solve problems and build or eager to learn how
• Bonus: Prior experience with Temporal or another workflow orchestration system

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:

• Competitive global benefits
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

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