Staff Software Engineer - Alerting Platform

Requirements:

• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years.
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns.
• You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures.
• You have significant back end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale.

What You'll Do:

• Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform's resilience and scalability across multiple teams.
• Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems.
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them.
• Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps.
• Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the alerting platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers.

Perks and Benefits:

• 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.