Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Bordeaux, FranceHybrid

Responsibilities

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:

experience in one or more languages
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products
You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
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Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

We are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams.
We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies.
Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way .
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together.
We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above
qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking