Software Engineer - Agent

The Agent Metric Pipelines team at Datadog is responsible for the collection of metrics in Datadog’s open-source Agent which schedules, collects, and processes hundreds of thousands of data points per second from monitored applications. The team focuses on optimizing the performance of the metrics collection while keeping the lowest footprint possible on our customers’ systems. The team also works on the open-source client libraries that allow customers to submit metrics from their applications. The team is also responsible for some of the core functionality of the Datadog Agent, including code that is shared across multiple parts of the Datadog Agent and the OpenTelemetry project. The Datadog Agent runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and on AMD/Intel and ARM architectures. The Datadog Agent is deployed on millions of customer hosts in containerized environments, on virtual machines, and in dedicated data centers.

We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies.

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 You’ll Do:

• Develop the Datadog Agent, running on customers infrastructures and in a large number of platforms / environments
• Work with other engineers and leads on other product teams to improve developer and user workflows
• Solve a scaling engineering bottleneck in a critical service
• Create reusable code components for wider Datadog Agent engineering teams
• Take part in investigating and fixing issues with the internal production deployment of the Datadog Agent
  
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Who You Are:

• You have been building applications for 5+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You have significant experience in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, Rust, or C/C++
• You have experience building and shipping packaged or downloadable software
• You value code simplicity and performance
• You can design architectures to solve problems at high scale
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

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.

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 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.

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