Staff Engineer - Agent Runtimes

Requirements:

• You are a significantly experienced software engineer with an extensive background in backend engineering (Go, Python, Rust, C++...) and software performance optimization.
• With a strong experience of 10y+ (at least), you have been exposed to the challenge of creating and delivering on-premise/packaged solutions with a high-performance and customer-centric approach.
• You enjoy connecting with teams and people in your ecosystem and have already demonstrated the ability to lead large cross-team initiatives in an environment where security, speed, and reliability are first-order concerns.
• You are able to bring best practices from across the world of software engineering and adapt them to the Agent.
• You are a strong communicator, especially on complex technical topics.
• You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and implement the internal Agent libraries and frameworks that allow Agent teams to build their features with a simple and consistent user experience (logging, hostname resolution, health API, etc), connect their Agent components to Datadog’s intakes, and easily communicate with other Agent components.
• Develop and maintain core functionality for the runtimes that the Agent uses (Go, Python, etc).
• Investigate, develop, and maintain core architectures that allow the Agent to be small, fast, and composable.
• Solve complex cross team projects/problems with multiple levels of stakeholders.
• Investigate and implement new approaches for reducing the Agent footprint and increasing overall performance.
• Lead and guide other engineers in their growth and development.
• Collaborate closely with partner teams that integrate and depend on the Agent to provide critical capabilities to their customers.
• Support the growth of the Agent adoption and featureset.

Nice to Haves:

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