Staff Engineer, Compute

As a Staff Engineer on Datadogs Compute Disruption and Workload Placement team youll help define how our Kubernetes fleet scales to meet the demands of rapidly growing AI and cloud-native workloads. Youll work on the systems that ensure engineering teams have the right compute capacity in the right region at the right time across AWS Google Cloud and Azure. This is a highly technical high-impact role where youll shape the future of capacity orchestration influence platform architecture and solve infrastructure challenges that directly support Datadogs continued growth.

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 the technical direction of capacity management and workload placement for Datadogs Kubernetes platform spanning 100000 virtual machines across multiple cloud providers.
• Design and build systems that optimize how engineering workloads are scheduled and deployed across regions while balancing capacity constraints reliability and performance.
• Partner across infrastructure teams to evolve multi-region and multi-cloud capacity orchestration as Datadog continues to scale.
• Develop production software in Go to improve Kubernetes platform capabilities automation and operational efficiency.
• Use data and capacity signals to influence infrastructure decisions forecast growth and improve workload placement strategies.

Who You Are:

• You have significant experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes-based infrastructure or platform systems.
• You are an experienced software engineer with strong programming skills ideally in Go or a comparable systems programming language.
• You have hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS Google Cloud or Azure) and understand distributed cloud infrastructure.
• You have a strong systems mindset and enjoy solving complex infrastructure scheduling or capacity management challenges.
• You are comfortable working with operational data capacity forecasting or analytical approaches that inform engineering decisions.
• You have a proven track record of providing technical leadership across teams and influencing architecture without relying on direct management authority.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We know not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your experience we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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