Staff Engineer, Data Platform Experience | Hybrid + Equity

Datadog, Inc.; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Career development

Hybrid onboarding

Job summary

Datadog, Inc. seeks a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform Experience team in Paris. You will design and deliver shared platform capabilities, reduce developer friction, and help engineering teams move faster with confidence. You’ll stay hands-on while guiding multiple teams on architecture and strategy.

You’ll work with Java, Go, Kafka and Kubernetes, shape observability tooling, and influence platform health, cost awareness, and developer experience across the org. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills.
• Backend experience with Java and Go; distributed infrastructure including Kafka and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic engineering initiatives that 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 contributions.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Job description

Datadog, Inc. seeks a Staff Engineer for the Data Platform Experience team in Paris. You will design and deliver shared platform capabilities, reduce developer friction, and help engineering teams move faster with confidence. You’ll stay hands-on while guiding multiple teams on architecture and strategy.

You’ll work with Java, Go, Kafka and Kubernetes, shape observability tooling, and influence platform health, cost awareness, and developer experience across the org. Hybrid work model offered.