Senior Software Engineer - Agent Metric Pipelines

Requirements:

• You have strong experience in systems or distributed programming (Go, Rust, C++, Java, or similar)
• You have worked on Agent-like software or other software deployed on-prem
• You have experience in data pipeline processing, compression techniques, or telemetry transport protocols (e.g., gRPC, UDP, message batching)
• You are skilled in performance profiling and optimization—you think in terms of CPU cycles, memory footprints, and bandwidth efficiency
• You understand Linux internals and low-level OS concepts, and are familiar with Kubernetes or containerized deployment workflows
• You are open to working in Go and Rust, and interested in OpenTelemetry and observability systems
• You value reliability, observability, and craftsmanship in production software, and thrive in collaborative, cross-functional engineering environments

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and implement high-performance, resource-efficient data pipelines for collecting, aggregating, and shipping metrics from the Datadog Agent to backend systems
• Profile and optimize code for CPU, memory, and network efficiency to ensure smooth operation in resource-constrained, on-prem environments where agents run on customer hosts
• Ensure data correctness, compression efficiency, and overall quality across the telemetry pipeline, including deduplication, tagging, and metric typing
• Collaborate on performance analysis and tuning, improving reliability, latency, and throughput across large-scale ingestion systems
• Partner with other teams to support new telemetry formats, gRPC/UDP data paths, and OpenTelemetry integration
• Contribute to operational excellence, including monitoring, debugging, and on-call rotations, ensuring low latency and high data delivery success rates
• Write clean, maintainable code in Go and Rust, and help evolve the Agent ecosystem to support new workloads and environments

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