Senior Software Engineer - Release Platforms

About the Role

The Release Platforms team at Datadog is responsible for building the systems that enable developers to reliably ship their code to production every day. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will not only write code but also help drive the overall technical vision of our deployment tooling. You will collaborate with product and infrastructure teams across Datadog to understand their deployment processes, allowing us to effectively scale and evolve the systems we provide to Datadog engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Code Development: Write and maintain code that supports our deployment tooling.
• Technical Vision: Help drive the overall technical vision for our deployment systems.
• Collaboration: Partner with product and infrastructure teams to understand and improve deployment processes.
• System Evolution: Scale and evolve our software release workflow management platform from a set of mature tools into an extensible platform.
• Technical Standards: Set and raise the technical bar for building fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• System Scaling: Help scale the system to support growth into new and more complex environments.

Who You Are

• Experience: 5+ years of software development experience.
• Deployment Tools: Experience with building tools to deploy software reliably at large scale.
• Mentorship: Enjoy mentoring other engineers.
• Technical Skills: Experience with Kubernetes, Golang, and systems like Helm, Terraform, Argo, Flux, or other cloud-native CI/CD platforms.
• System Reliability: Experience as a system reliability engineer.

Benefits and Growth

• Equity and Stock Plans: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Professional Development: Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Mentorship Programs: 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 Benefits: Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• Competitive Benefits: Competitive global benefits package.

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

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.