Staff Software Engineer - APM Troubleshooting Experience

Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including both effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• Deep backend programming expertise — you’ve architected, built, and operated complex systems at scale
• Customer-first mindset and a strong drive to build products that meet real needs
• You care deeply about product quality and have clear, thoughtful perspectives on how things should work
• You value simplicity and clean design in systems, interfaces, and user experiences
• You have a track record of taking full ownership of ambiguous and complex problems and turning them into solutions that deliver real value
• Hands-on experience developing web applications is a plus

What you'll be doing:

• Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to make APM the best performance insights product on the market
• Provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries to ensure maximum delivery efficiency
• Support and guide other engineers through product and architectural platform decisions
• Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led planning and roadmaps
• Collaborate with internal product teams to design solutions that meet our customer needs
• Recognize meaningful problems to solve, prototype what a solution would look like and drive the implementation end to end
• Build customer empathy by talking directly to customers
• Share thoughtful perspectives on how the user experience should look like and collaborate with UX designers and to drive improvements

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