Staff Platform Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Observability

Triwill Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

RSUs and employee stock purchase plan

Career development opportunities

Onboarding and mentoring programs

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead on the Data Platform Experience team. You will shape how engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform, delivering scalable platform capabilities and self-service tooling to reduce friction and improve reliability.

You will contribute hands-on while guiding architecture across multiple teams, with a focus on observability platforms and cost intelligence.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills across multiple teams.
• Platform engineering mindset; building reusable capabilities to accelerate other teams.
• Effective communicator who can influence technical direction without direct authority.

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 and observability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Java

Go

Kafka

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

Observability tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead on the Data Platform Experience team. You will shape how engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform, delivering scalable platform capabilities and self-service tooling to reduce friction and improve reliability.

You will contribute hands-on while guiding architecture across multiple teams, with a focus on observability platforms and cost intelligence.