Senior Software Engineer Kubernetes Container Autoscaling

Lisbon - Portugal

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Container Autoscaling team is part of the Container Monitoring product within the Infrastructure Observability group at Datadog. Were responsible for building and evolving Datadogs Kubernetes Autoscaling producta solution that enables companies to automatically adjust Kubernetes resources to optimize performance improve efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs.

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:

Build both backend and in-cluster software (end-to-end flows) to power products providing both observability and automated actions
Participate and contribute to upstream open-source communities
Do it in Go Python or any language that fits the particular task at hand
Design and write features that solve new problems in the industry
Work on unsolved cutting-edge problems to offer best in-class Autoscaling experience
Have a significant impact on the product and the user experience of fellow engineers who use the product

Who You Are:

You have a significant experience (7years) as software engineer or platform engineer/SRE that helped you to become fluent in various languages (Golang C Rust C# Java) and willing to continue to learn more.
You have in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes its APIs and some of its internals (APIServer controllers volumes etc.).

Bonus points:

Youve been part of a team operating or managing Kubernetes clusters used by internal or external customers
Youve built reliable and scalable backend applications.
You already worked on a Cluster or Workload autoscaling project (for instance: HPA VPA Cluster Autoscaler Karpenter etc.) or product

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