Job Overview
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Event Platform Storage team at Datadog. This role is pivotal in enhancing our Event Platform, which ingests, transforms, and stores events to support over 30 Datadog products. The platform processes data at a rate of approximately 15 million messages per second, requiring a high level of reliability and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and Lead Projects: Drive high-priority projects that enhance the platform's resilience and scalability.
- Architectural Guidance: Lead architectural decisions for distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems.
- Risk Management: Identify system risks and design solutions to mitigate them.
- Collaboration: Work closely with partner platforms to integrate and provide critical capabilities.
Who You Are
- Experienced Leader: You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for over 2 years.
- Performance-Oriented: Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization.
- Reliability Mindset: You care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures.
- Technical Expertise: Significant experience in back-end programming and distributed systems.
Technologies Used
- Programming Languages: Java, Go, Rust
- Focus Areas: Distributed Systems, Back-End Development, Software Design
Benefits and Growth
- Equity and Stock Plans: New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
- Professional Development: Continuous learning opportunities and career pathing.
- Mentorship Programs: Access to mentor and buddy programs for networking.
- Inclusive Culture: Join Community Guilds and participate in Inclusion Talks.
- Health Benefits: Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents.
- Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive global benefits package.
About Datadog
Datadog is a global SaaS company providing cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces, and logs. We are committed to breaking down silos and solving complexity in the cloud age, enabling digital transformation and infrastructure monitoring. Our platform is used by organizations of all sizes across various industries.
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.
Join us and be part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
- Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds
- Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents
- Competitive global benefits
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