Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform

New York, United StatesHybrid

Responsibilities

Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane.
Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency.
Lead high-stakes technical projects, maintaining end-to-end accountability for their delivery and quality.
Collaborate with partner teams on delivering projects wider than your team's scope.
Mentor junior engineers and interns, fostering a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge. Who You Are:

We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python.
You have strong proficiency in low-level languages (ideally Rust).
experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems like Kafka.
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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You are curious about AI and actively leverage it to enhance your development workflow. Bonus: Direct
Bonus: Familiarity with language bindings and FFI.
New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
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

Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services.
Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide. See our blog post .
The Streaming Platform Client team sits at the heart of this ecosystem.
We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library.
Our library runs on critical data paths that handle hundreds of millions of messages per second making performance, observability, and reliability paramount.
We also develop and operate the service that bridges the clients fleet with the platform's control plane, handling complex balancing, scaling, and static stability challenges.
You will collaborate directly with our users, tackle performance-critical code, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across the control plane, client libraries, and data plane.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.
We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do:
Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services.