engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoStaff Software Engineer
at Datadoghq
New York, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
Requirements
- 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 validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output.
- 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.
Experience
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, either as a manager or technical leader
Benefits
- 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
- 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: $244,000 — $305,000 USD
Additional details
- 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. The Opportunity:
- Datadog’s Staff Engineers are our technical leaders operating at the forefront of technology, building solutions that take us through at least our next five years of growth.
- As individual contributors, they bring world class technical abilities to deliver industry leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet scale streaming.
- As technical leaders they bring experienced technical breadth and communication skills to tackling design and architectural problems spanning the organization, charting the right course, then leading delivery.
- In both roles they participate in the staff engineering community and help us learn from what the industry is doing and what we've built before, and so improve company wide standards around software and systems engineering.
- Some examples of projects a staff engineer may own include designing and building a new data storage engine handling hundreds of millions of records per second, being the lead engineer building a new product like synthetics or profiling, or rebuilding a critical service to handle the next two orders of magnitude of scale. What You'll Do:
- Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
- Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale Who You Are: