Senior Software Engineer

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We're are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. 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. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br><br></span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have significant experience in one or more languages</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You value code simplicity and performance</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span data-sheets-root="1">You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how</span></span></li> </ul> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Benefits and Growth: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive global benefits</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">< ... (truncated, view full listing at source)