Senior Software Engineer

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our...

Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service

Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags

You have significant experience in one or more languages
You value code simplicity and performance
You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products
You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs
6+ years of experience

 
You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
You have a strong background in statistics
You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 
This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
 

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