Senior Software Engineer

Datadog; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Product training

Continuous career development

Mentor and buddy program

Inclusive company culture

Stock equity (RSUs)

Free global mental health benefit

Generous global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a skilled engineer in Boston, MA to tackle scaling challenges in critical services and design architectures suitable for high traffic. Ideal candidates will have significant programming experience and the ability to utilize AI tools effectively in their workflows. The role offers extensive growth opportunities in a fast-paced startup environment.

Benefits include product training, career development, stock equity, and an inclusive company culture.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in one or more programming languages.
• Ability to design architecture to solve problems at high scale.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools effectively.

Responsibilities

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service.
• Deploy new features to production using feature flags.
• Investigate and fix production issues.

Skills

Experience in programming languages

Code simplicity and performance

Designing architecture for high scale

Experience with AI coding tools

Education

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

Tools

Redis

Cassandra

Kafka

Go

C

Python

Job description

Responsibilities

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
• Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Qualifications

• You have significant experience in one or more languages
• You value code simplicity and performance
• You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• 6+ years of experience

Bonus points

• You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
• You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
• You have a strong background in statistics
• You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Benefits and Growth

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
• Generous global benefits

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