Senior Software Engineer - Synthetics Platform

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• You have programming experience with a structured programming language (Go, Python)
• You have experience running production environments within one or several Cloud environments
• You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
• You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems
• You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka, Redis

What You'll Be Doing:

• Deploy new Synthetics locations
• Develop tooling to manage existing Synthetics locations
• Design, plan, develop tools to do various types of migrations in an automated way without downtime in many regions/cloud providers
• Help shape new infrastructure technologies serving the Synthetics product
• Be an expert helping Synthetics developers make better architecture decisions and configure their services

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