Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability

Requirements:

• You have 5+ years of experience building backend software in production, using languages like Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust
• You’ve contributed to the design and development of backend services or APIs, and enjoy solving real-world engineering problems
• You’ve had some exposure to distributed systems (e.g., fault tolerance, messaging, scalability) and are excited to deepen your expertise
• You write clean, maintainable code and approach system design with thoughtfulness and curiosity
• You’re collaborative and eager to grow your impact by working on high-scale, high-reliability systems

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and build reliable backend services that handle high-throughput, globally distributed workloads
• Own core components that power products relied on by thousands of engineering teams worldwide
• Collaborate with other experienced engineers to evolve system architecture with a focus on scalability and resilience
• Learn and apply distributed systems design patterns in a production setting
• Ship production-grade code in languages like Go, Python, or Java
• Contribute to team culture through code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentorship of peers and junior engineers

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