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Software Engineer - Backend Generalist

Datadog

What You’ll Do:

  • Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service.
  • Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags.
  • Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns.
  • Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic.
  • With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next.

Who You Are:

  • You have significant experience in one or more languages.
  • You value code simplicity and performance.
  • You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale.
  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
  • You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers.

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. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity 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.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

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

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