Senior Real-Time Distributed Systems Engineer

Datadog; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development

Job summary

Datadog is seeking distributed systems engineers to design, implement, and operate core platforms powering real-time data pipelines at scale. You will work on durable, low-latency systems and write code in Go, Java, Rust, or C++ while leveraging open-source tools like Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch.

You will join a collaborative, hybrid workplace that values engineers and customers, with opportunities to push AI-assisted coding practices and contribute to AI-enabled products across a

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
• Significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++).
• Experience with high durability and low latency problems.

Responsibilities

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions in multi-tenant environments.
• Write in Go, Java, Rust or C++, amongst other languages.
• Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components.

Skills

Backend programming

Go

Java

Rust

C++

Low latency

Distributed systems

AI tooling

Education

BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Open-source components

Job description

Datadog is seeking distributed systems engineers to design, implement, and operate core platforms powering real-time data pipelines at scale. You will work on durable, low-latency systems and write code in Go, Java, Rust, or C++ while leveraging open-source tools like Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch.

You will join a collaborative, hybrid workplace that values engineers and customers, with opportunities to push AI-assisted coding practices and contribute to AI-enabled products across a