The Universal Service Monitoring team is building a zero-instrumentation observability solution that automatically discovers services on every host. We’re looking for a senior distributed systems engineer to design, implement, and run in production the foundational platforms powering this application. You’ll get to apply your strong systems-level thinking to create data pipelines that ingest, store, analyze, and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe.
You’ll join a high-impact team tackling ambitious technical challenges, like decoding traffic across multiple protocols and ensuring high-fidelity metrics in complex, real-world environments. You’ll be expected to lead design and implementation efforts, contribute to roadmap planning, and collaborate across teams to ensure our solution remains robust, scalable, and frictionless for our users.
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 You’ll Do
- Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
- Write in Go amongst other languages
- Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and other open-source components
- Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
Who You Are
- You have 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems
- You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
- You have worked on large-scale, high-throughput backend systems
- You’re comfortable working across multi-tenant, cloud-native environments
- You care about simple designs and performance
- Bonus: You’ve worked on observability, tracing, or protocol analysis system
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That’s okay. If you’re passionate about distributed systems and observability 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 and access to 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+
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.#LI-NC4
About Datadog:
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 #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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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.
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At Datadog, we learn from and celebrate each other daily - each win is a team win. Datadogs solve tough problems, innovate pragmatically, and grow together. We promote from within, provide mentorship and opportunities for career development, and support our colleagues in the process. Best of all? We truly love what we do.
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