Senior Platform Engineer

Requirements:

• You have 10+ years of experience with a mixed background including platform / infrastructure engineering and software development.
• As a developer, you are comfortable using various programming languages (Go, Python, Java, Rust, c++, c#,...).
• You’re experienced (and eager to deepen your expertise) with Kubernetes and its ecosystem (Operators,...).
• You enjoy working in open-source, and you’re comfortable contributing to and maintaining public-facing projects.
• You take a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to building reliable tools and you already led multiple technical projects in your career.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead development and ongoing maintenance of the Kubernetes Operator that manages the Agent lifecycle, supporting the deployment patterns of our largest customer segment.
• Improve and maintain the Helm chart and associated tooling for deploying the Datadog Agent into Kubernetes environments.
• Support a broad range of deployment environments—including virtual machines, hosts, macOS, containers, and bare metal—by evolving our tooling built on open-source systems such as Ansible, Puppet…
• Contribute to and maintain open-source repositories and ensuring long-term stability and usability.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver solutions that integrate cleanly into a wide variety of infrastructure setups.

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