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Senior Software Engineer

Datadog

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog, you will be tasked with solving scaling bottlenecks in critical services, deploying new features to production, and investigating and fixing production issues. You will design architectures to handle high traffic and plan important projects with your team.

What You’ll Do

  • Solve scaling bottlenecks in a critical service.
  • Deploy new features to production, using feature flags for progressive rollouts.
  • Investigate and fix production issues in services your team owns.
  • Design architectures to scale up services for increased traffic.

Who You Are

  • Experienced in one or more programming languages.
  • Value code simplicity and performance.
  • Capable of designing architecture to solve problems at high scale.
  • Hold a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or have equivalent experience.
  • Thrive in a fast, high-growth startup environment.

Benefits and Growth

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Continuous professional development and product training.
  • Career pathing opportunities.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions.
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
  • Competitive global benefits.

About Datadog

Datadog is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence. Join us to empower continuous growth and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs)
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development
  • Product training
  • Career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
  • Inclusion Talks
  • Global mental health benefits
  • Competitive global benefits

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