Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Continuous Profiler

Datadog, Inc.; Nantes; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity (RSUs)

Continuous professional development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive company culture

Job summary

Datadog is hiring a distributed systems engineer to help design, build, and operate core profiling services at scale. You will collaborate with runtime engineers, data scientists, designers, and other teams to ingest, index, store, and analyze profiling data across customer applications in production environments.

The role requires strong Java and/or Go experience, distributed systems expertise, and excellent English communication.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and/or Go essential.
• Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems.
• Excellent communication skills (English).
• Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space.
• Experience working with AI coding agents to produce performant and maintainable results.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams.
• Working knowledge of statistical methods (sampling strategies, bayesian optimization, sensor fusion) is nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Help design, build and contribute to the core services making the profiling product possible, at a scale that is unusual even within Datadog.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary squads, and iterate with customers, to bring ideas all the way from early explorations to impactful product experiences.
• You will be responsible for your code from development to production, and meet ambitious SLO and quality gates.
• You will be working with many internal and external stakeholders, working on various ways to consume the profiling data, such as the UI, agentic tools, internal applications, integrations and partner products.

Skills

Java

Go

Distributed systems

English

Job description

Datadog is hiring a distributed systems engineer to help design, build, and operate core profiling services at scale. You will collaborate with runtime engineers, data scientists, designers, and other teams to ingest, index, store, and analyze profiling data across customer applications in production environments.

The role requires strong Java and/or Go experience, distributed systems expertise, and excellent English communication.