Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Governance & Cost

Datadog, Inc.; Lyon; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Professional development & career path

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive culture

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

Zusammenfassung

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer in a hybrid Lyon-based role.

You will design and build high-performance distributed systems across Metrics, Logs, APM, and Events, collaborating with product teams to minimize operational friction and costs while maximizing customer value. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend experience in Go, Java, Rust, or C++, with strong communication skills and a proactive, cross-team mindset.

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering.
• Significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++).
• Distributed systems engineer with experience building high-performance large-scale systems.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• High proactivity and cross-team collaboration experience.
• Interest in leveraging AI tools to enhance coding and problem solving.

Aufgaben

• Build performant high-scale distributed systems for Datadog's products.
• Collaborate across teams and independently gather information to move work forward.
• Onboard quickly to unfamiliar systems and navigate ambiguity.
• Anticipate dependencies and integration challenges early.
• Identify opportunities for cross-product improvements and take initiative.
• Tie engineering decisions to customer value, cost efficiency, and usability.

Kenntnisse

Backend development

Distributed systems

Go

Java

Rust

C++

Communication

AI tooling

Tools

AI coding tools

Jobbeschreibung

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer in a hybrid Lyon-based role.

You will design and build high-performance distributed systems across Metrics, Logs, APM, and Events, collaborating with product teams to minimize operational friction and costs while maximizing customer value. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend experience in Go, Java, Rust, or C++, with strong communication skills and a proactive, cross-team mindset.