Senior Software Engineer - Data Reliability

Join Our Team as a Senior Software Engineer - Data Reliability

Are you passionate about building reliable and scalable data systems? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment? Datadog is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Reliability team in Lisbon. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain the infrastructure needed to support our growing customer base, ensuring minimal issues and controlled costs.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and Build Infrastructure: Develop and maintain the infrastructure to support a growing number of customers, focusing on minimizing issues and controlling costs.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve Issues: Investigate and fix issues or bottlenecks, whether deep in the platform code or in the client application.
• Support Services and Datastores: Provide 24x7 support for the services and datastores that we own.
• Automate Infrastructure: Build tooling and automation to run our infrastructure with minimal human intervention.
• Collaborate with Developers: Work with developers to design data models and advise on datastore options.

Who You Are:

• Educational Background: You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or at least 5 years of professional experience.
• Experience with Distributed Systems: You have production experience with distributed systems such as Zookeeper, Cassandra, Postgres, FoundationDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, or MongoDB.
• Programming Skills: You are proficient in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Go, Java, Rust, or C/C++.
• Startup Enthusiast: You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.
• Architectural Skills: You can design simple and performant architecture to solve problems at high scale.
• Bonus: Hands-on engineering experience with major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Benefits and Growth:

• Stock Options: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Professional Development: Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Mentorship: Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• Inclusive Culture: An inclusive company culture with the ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups).
• Mental Health: Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive Benefits: Competitive global benefits.

About Datadog:

Datadog is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Join us and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. We offer equal employment opportunities to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.