Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — High-Impact, Hybrid

Datadog; Nantes; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and ESPP

Continuous professional development, 1

Intradepartmental mentor and buddy

An inclusive company culture, employee

Access to Inclusion Talks

Free global mental health benefits for

Competitive global benefits

Job summary

Datadog engineers design and run foundational platforms that process billions of events per second in real-time, across the globe. The role involves building fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems, writing in Go, Java, Rust, or C++, and leveraging open-source components like Kafka and Elasticsearch.

You will own meaningful parts of our service and grow with a fast-growing startup that values engineers and customers.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD or equivalent experience.
• Significant backend programming experience in Go, Java, Rust or C++.
• Exposure to high durability/low latency distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions in multi-tenant environments.
• Write code in Go, Java, Rust or C++, amongst other languages.
• Own meaningful parts of the service and have an impact across the company.

Skills

Go

Java

Rust

C++

Education

BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Job description

Datadog engineers design and run foundational platforms that process billions of events per second in real-time, across the globe. The role involves building fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems, writing in Go, Java, Rust, or C++, and leveraging open-source components like Kafka and Elasticsearch.

You will own meaningful parts of our service and grow with a fast-growing startup that values engineers and customers.