Senior Software Engineer

Boston, United StatesHybrid

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 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
You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
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.
Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

6+ years of experience Bonus points:
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000 — $240,000 USD

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies.
Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. You will:
You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
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.
This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds