Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
New York, New York, USA

We're 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 scale—trillions of data points per day—providing 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.

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
• Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Designa way to scale up a service for more traffic
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

• You have significant experience in one or more languages
• You valuecode simplicity and performance
• You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• 6+ years of experience
• You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
• You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
• You have a strong background in statistics
• You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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$130,000 — $300,000 USD

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.

Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #Datadog Life on Instagram , Linked In, and Datadog Learning Center.

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