Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security Platform

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cloud Security team was founded with one mission: Help our customers secure their data, infrastructure and applications. Cloud Security teams help DevOps and security-teams work together, with 4 main products : Workload Security, Posture Management, Application Security Monitoring and Cloud SIEM. To become a leader in this domain, we need to consistently innovate, deliver new features to existing products and launch new products that will fulfill our customer needs. Join the team in this exciting journey!</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 data-pm-slice="1 3 []"> </p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build and operate distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do it in Java and Go, with bits of Python or other languages</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use Kafka, Elasticsearch and other open-source components</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company</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 a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can get down to the low-level when needed</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You care about code simplicity and performance</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are accountable team player that likes to get things done</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 data-pm-slice="1 3 []"> </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;" ... (truncated, view full listing at source)