Senior Data Engineer — Billing & High-Scale Pipelines

JobCubby; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) match

Paid time off

Stock purchase

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own parts of a large-scale billing processing platform, designing high-throughput data pipelines and improving platform reliability.

You will work with Python and Scala, Spark, Airflow, Trino, and Apache Iceberg, contributing to billing features and collaborating with Finance and Product teams.

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, competitive salary, equity, and a culture of engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale using Spark and Airflow.
• Ability to drive cross-functional investigations and resolve issues in data systems.
• Balance feature delivery with platform health and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-throughput data pipelines for billing and cost attribution.
• Drive platform improvements including latency reduction and data reliability.
• Own root-cause investigations on billing accuracy with Finance and Product teams.
• Contribute to new billing features and cross-datacenter reliability.

Skills

Spark

Airflow

Python

Scala

Data pipelines

Reliability

Tools

Trino

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own parts of a large-scale billing processing platform, designing high-throughput data pipelines and improving platform reliability.

You will work with Python and Scala, Spark, Airflow, Trino, and Apache Iceberg, contributing to billing features and collaborating with Finance and Product teams.

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, competitive salary, equity, and a culture of engineering excellence.