Staff Engineer, Observability Data Platform

Datadog; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 130.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Stock RSUs

ESPP

Career development

Onboarding

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Descripción de la vacante

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform Experience team to shape how engineering teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform. You will lead design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce friction and improve operational visibility.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep distributed systems expertise, strong architecture skills, and the ability to influence across teams while mentoring engineers.

Formación

• Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with distributed systems expertise.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills with cross-team leadership.
• Platform engineering mindset with reusable capabilities for other teams.
• Effective communicator able to influence technical direction across boundaries.
• Experience with Java, Go, Kafka, and Kubernetes in backend and distributed infrastructure.
• Familiarity with observability or internal developer platforms is a plus but not required.

Responsabilidades

• Lead strategic engineering initiatives to improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform.
• Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations.
• Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency.
• Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products.
• Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Java

Go

Kafka

Kubernetes

Technical leadership

Communication

Descripción del empleo

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform Experience team to shape how engineering teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform. You will lead design and delivery of shared platform capabilities that reduce friction and improve operational visibility.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep distributed systems expertise, strong architecture skills, and the ability to influence across teams while mentoring engineers.