Staff Engineer, Data Platform – Scale & Observability

Datadog; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs and employee stock purchase plan

Career development and mentoring

Inclusive workplace culture

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the Data Platform Experience, leading design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities across multiple teams. You’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture, and build reusable components for cost intelligence, observability, and developer tooling.

Hybrid work in Ireland with focus on delivering value across product teams, reducing friction, and accelerating engineering velocity while maintaining reliability and security.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills; led complex technical initiatives across teams.
• Platform mindset: building reusable capabilities to speed up delivery.

Responsibilities

• 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 to help teams understand platform health and troubleshoot incidents.
• Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity.
• Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising standards with hands-on contributions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and improve platform reliability and observability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering mindset

Communication

Backend design

Tools

Java

Go

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the Data Platform Experience, leading design and delivery of scalable platform capabilities across multiple teams. You’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture, and build reusable components for cost intelligence, observability, and developer tooling.

Hybrid work in Ireland with focus on delivering value across product teams, reducing friction, and accelerating engineering velocity while maintaining reliability and security.