Software Engineer with Systems Depth

Requirements:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, or related scientific field or at least 5 years of professional experience
• You have production experience with distributed systems, e.g. Zookeeper, Cassandra, Postgres, FoundationDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB
• You are mastering at least one programming or scripting language, e.g. Go, Java, Rust, C/ C++
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You can design simple and performant architecture to solve problems at high scale
• Bonus Point: You have hands-on engineering experience with at least one of the major cloud providers – AWS, Azure, GCP

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, build and maintain the infrastructure we need to support orders of magnitude more customers, while minimizing issues and controlling cost
• Investigate and fix issues or bottlenecks, whether it’s deep in the platform code or in the client application
• Support the services and datastores that we own, 24x7
• Build tooling and automation to run our infrastructure with minimal human intervention
• Work with developers to design data models and advise on datastores options

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