Senior Software Engineer

Datadog; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan

Global mental health benefits

Generous global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is seeking experienced engineers to solve scaling bottlenecks, deploy features, and ensure production quality. Applicants should have significant programming experience and a strong background in scientific fields.

The ideal candidate will value simplicity and performance in code, and be comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Competitive benefits and growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in relevant fields.
• Ability to design architecture to solve problems at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Experience in programming languages

Code simplicity and performance

Design architecture for high scale

Experience with AI coding tools

Statistical background

Significant experience with Go, C, or Python

Education

BS/MS/PhD in scientific field or equivalent experience

Tools

Experience with Redis

Experience with Cassandra

Experience with Kafka

Job description

About Datadog:

We’re on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always‑on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

You will:

• 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

Who You Are:

• 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

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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About Datadog: Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high‑growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $130,000—$300,000 USD