Software Engineer - Backend Generalist

Treehouse; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An innovative company is seeking talented engineers to join their mission of building the best platform for system management. In this role, you will tackle scaling challenges, deploy features, and design solutions for high-traffic services. The culture emphasizes pragmatism and simplicity, allowing you to solve complex problems effectively. You will be part of a fast-paced startup that values its engineers and fosters professional growth. If you're passionate about technology and eager to expand your skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Servicios

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development

Intradepartmental mentor program

Inclusive company culture

Access to Inclusion Talks

Free global mental health benefits

Formación

• Significant experience in one or more programming languages.
• Ability to design architecture for high-scale problems.

Responsabilidades

• Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services.
• Deploy new features progressively with feature flags.
• Investigate and fix production issues.

Conocimientos

Code simplicity

Performance optimization

Architectural design

Problem-solving in high scale

Programming languages

Educación

BS in a scientific field

MS in a scientific field

PhD in a scientific field

Descripción del empleo

We're are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

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

Qualifications

• You have significant experience in one or more languages
• You value code simplicity and performance
• You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
• You have a BS / MS / PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

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.

Benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog (NASDAQ : DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.