Senior Software Engineer Synthetics Platform

Paris - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Synthetics Platform team is the interface between engineers developing the Synthetics products and Datadog infrastructure teams.
Today Synthetics services are already deployed in more than 30 regions and across 3 cloud providers.

The team is responsible to deploy new locations to run Synthetics tests build tooling to deploy software in them and provide help on setting up cloud provider specific services to other Synthetics teams.

The systems and tooling the team is using include: Kubernetes Terraform Postgres Redis Bazel Temporal build tooling Cassandra configuration management container orchestration Kafka.

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:

Deploy new Synthetics locations
Develop tooling to manage existing Synthetics locations
Design plan develop tools to do various type of migrations in a fully automated way without any downtime in many regions/cloud providers
Help shape new infrastructure technologies serving the Synthetics product
Be an expert helping Synthetics developers to make better architecture decisions and configure their services

Who You Are: (Describe role qualifications here)

5 years of experience in software engineering
You have programming experience with a structured programming language (Go Python)
You have experience running production environments within one or several Cloud environments
You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems
You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools e.g. Kubernetes Cassandra Postgres Kafka Redis

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: (Describe opportunities offered here)

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

The Synthetics Platform team is the interface between engineers developing the Synthetics products and Datadog infrastructure teams.Today Synthetics services are already deployed in more than 30 regions and across 3 cloud providers.The team is responsible to deploy new locations to run Synthetics te...