engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoStaff Engineer - Data Semantics
at Datadoghq
Madrid, SpainHybrid
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Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction of the Data Semantics team while remaining deeply hands-on in design, implementation, and delivery.
- Build and scale semantic infrastructure that bridges OpenTelemetry, Datadog-native telemetry, cloud-provider telemetry, and customer-defined data models.
- Drive platform initiatives focused on schema evolution, telemetry standardization, data insights, and semantic interoperability across Datadog products.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, operational excellence, and long-term career development.
Requirements
- Data Semantics is Datadog’s authority on semantic knowledge, providing shared infrastructure that powers both Datadog’s product experiences and AI capabilities.
- As Datadog continues its investment in OpenTelemetry-native observability, semantic interoperability, and AI-powered workflows, this team sits at the center of some of the company’s most strategic platform initiatives.
- Experience with schema design, metadata systems, OpenTelemetry, observability platforms, knowledge graphs, or AI-assisted developer tooling is a plus.
- 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.
Benefits
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
Additional details
- As a Staff Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader for the team, balancing stewardship of critical production systems with the exploration of new platform capabilities that improve how telemetry is modeled, understood, and consumed across Datadog.
- You will work closely with engineering and product partners to define standards, drive technical direction, and deliver solutions that scale across Datadog’s observability platform.
- 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:
- Partner with engineering and product teams across the platform to define standards, align stakeholders, and deliver high-leverage platform capabilities.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead investigation and resolution efforts for complex production incidents affecting critical platform services. Who You Are:
- experience designing, operating, and scaling large-scale data infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput data platforms.
- You have demonstrated Staff-level impact through technical leadership, architectural ownership, cross-team influence, and mentorship.
- You are a strong communicator who can drive alignment across engineering and product organizations without direct authority.
- You bring a product-oriented mindset and can connect platform investments to customer outcomes and business impact.