Staff Software Engineer, Core Observability

About Datadog:

Were on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems applications and teams. We operate at high scaletrillions of data points per dayproviding always-on alerting metrics visualization logs and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism honesty and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

The team:
The Core Observability team at Datadog ensures our internal observability use cases are met with reliability scalability and cost-efficiencyleveraging our own platform at Datadog scale. As a Staff Software Engineer youll operate as a senior technical leader with broad cross-functional impact. Youll architect resilient and scalable observability systems influence product direction and drive multi-team initiatives that benefit both internal stakeholders and external customers. This role offers the opportunity to shape long-term observability strategy elevate engineering quality across the organization and mentor other senior engineers in a high-scale pragmatic environment.

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:

• Translate organization-wide observability needs into actionable technical strategies that influence product roadmaps and engineering priorities.
• Lead delivery of complex multi-org initiativesfrom problem framing through production deploymentat global scale.
• Architect resilient scalable solutions to cross-org challenges including disaster recovery telemetry ingestion and multi-region readiness.
• Partner with engineering infrastructure product and security teams to align observability practices improve internal platforms and shape roadmap direction.
• Improve operational excellence company-wide by refining SLOs on-call processes automation and runbooks to reduce risk and improve reliability.
• Act as the senior technical authority for all telemetry production and consumption guiding long-term strategy and alignment.
• Mentor senior engineers influence design principles and elevate technical standards across the Core Observability domain.

Who You Are:

• 8 years of experience in software or systems engineering with a focus on large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in observability domains including metrics logs traces telemetry pipelines and reliability frameworks.
• Proven operational experience owning or building critical infrastructure including on-call participation.
• Skilled at navigating ambiguity and turning complex technical or organizational challenges into clear action plans.
• Experienced in leading long-term architectural transformations and cross-org technical initiatives.
• Strong communicator with the ability to build alignment and understanding across diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
• Highly autonomous and impact-driven with a track record of identifying and solving high-leverage problems without needing direction.

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:

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