Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments

• Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components

• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)

• You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)

• 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 validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.

• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products.

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.

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+