Join Datadog as a Library Software Engineer - Go
Datadog is seeking a talented Library Software Engineer to join our team in Lisbon. As a key member of our engineering department, you will work on our open-source Go library, contributing to the development and integration of security monitoring features. This role involves collaborating with the Go ecosystem and language to enhance the onboarding experience and ensure seamless integration.
Responsibilities
- Develop primarily in Go, focusing on instrumenting Go source code at compilation time to monitor services at runtime.
- Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of Application Security Management (ASM) for Go.
- Collaborate with ASM library teams and backend teams on new product ideas and ensure quality criteria are met through shared testing platforms and performance monitoring metrics.
- Write clean, correct, tested, performant, and idiomatic code that instruments thousands of Go services globally.
- Engage with the Go internals and runtime, working closely with the Datadog Go Library Squad, including the APM Go Tracing and Go Profiling teams.
Qualifications
- Professional experience programming in Go or a polyglot with the ability to adapt to Go.
- Experience with compiled languages, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallelism.
- Strong focus on writing readable, robust, and reliable code.
- Familiarity with Go packages and modules, including maintenance and updates.
- Performance-oriented mindset with experience in measuring and optimizing code.
- Active participation in library ecosystems and language communities.
- BS/MS/PhD in a CS/STEM field or equivalent experience.
Bonus Points
- Fluent in Go, avoiding common pitfalls and using modern syntax and language features.
- Experience with Go web frameworks like Gorilla, Gin, Echo, or Chi.
- Knowledge of interfacing Go with foreign code using CGO.
- Experience with code rewriting, AST transformation, or compilers.
- Familiarity with GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Experience in maintaining open-source projects and customer support.
Benefits
- Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates.
- Tackle interesting challenges and gain experience with runtime internals and low-level OS details.
- Opportunities to contribute to open-source software.
- Influence product direction and impact the business.
- Competitive global benefits and continuous professional development.
Join Datadog and be part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates
- Interesting challenges
- Opportunities to contribute to open source software
- Influence on product direction
- Competitive global benefits
- Continuous professional development
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