About the Role
We are seeking a talented Library Software Engineer to join our team at Datadog, focusing on our open-source Go library. This role is pivotal in developing and integrating security monitoring features, such as attack detection and exploit prevention, within our library. You will also work on enhancing the onboarding experience and collaborating with the Go ecosystem.
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 various ASM library teams and backend teams on new product ideas.
- Ensure quality through shared testing platforms, health metrics, and performance monitoring.
- Write code that instruments thousands of Go services globally.
- Engage with the Go internals and runtime, working closely with the Datadog Go Library Squad.
Who You Are
- Professional experience programming in Go or a polyglot developer comfortable with Go.
- Experience with compiled languages, multi-threading, concurrency, and parallelism.
- Ability to write clean, correct, tested, performant, and idiomatic code.
- Familiarity with Go packages and modules, including maintenance and updates.
- Passionate about performance optimization in terms of time and space.
- Up-to-date with library ecosystems and language communities.
- Open and collaborative work style.
- BS/MS/PhD in a CS/STEM field or equivalent experience.
Bonus Points
- Fluent in Go, avoiding common pitfalls and using modern syntax.
- Experience with Go web frameworks like Gorilla, Gin, Echo, or Chi.
- Familiarity with interfacing Go with foreign code using CGO.
- Experience with code rewriting, AST transformation, or compilers.
- Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Experience in maintaining open-source projects and customer support.
Benefits and Growth
- 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 us at Datadog and be part of a team that values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity in solving complex problems. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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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