Senior Software Engineer - Analytics Data Platform

Datadog, Inc.; Paris (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

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Job summary

Datadog, Inc. is seeking a senior backend engineer for the Analytics Data Platform Batch team. You will own backend services powering 800k+ Spark jobs daily across PySpark, Ray, and Python workloads, serving 50+ internal teams.

You’ll help scale, optimize, and automate data pipelines with a strong focus on reliability and performance. You have 6+ years of backend experience in Go/Java/Python/Rust/Scala, deep Spark internals knowledge, and a track record building infrastructure used by other

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend experience with multiple languages (Go, Java, Rust, Python, Scala).
• Deep knowledge of Spark internals, executor lifecycle, memory models, and dynamic allocation.
• Experience building platform/infrastructure used by other engineers.
• Strong communication skills in English and cross‑team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services for batch data processing at scale.
• Tune and optimize Spark-based workloads and JVM/Python runtimes.
• Build agentic tooling to analyze compatibility, generate PRs, and orchestrate testing.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and cross-datacenter support.
• Collaborate with data engineers, scientists, and other platform teams.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Rust

Scala

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Tools

Spark

Job description

The Analytics Data Platform Batch team owns the platform that powers batch data processing across Datadog’s internal data infrastructure. We execute 800k+ Spark jobs daily - plus PySpark, Ray, and Python-based workloads - serving 50+ internal teams across billing, cost management, security intelligence, applied AI and more.

We are a platform engineering team: our customers are Datadog’s internal data engineers and scientists, and our product is the infrastructure, abstractions, and tooling they build on top of. We operate at the intersection of distributed systems, developer experience, cost engineering, and AI-assisted automation - working on problems that affect pipelines at scale

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• AI-driven version migration automation: Spark and JVM
• Building agentic tooling that analyzes compatibility, generates PRs, and orchestrates multi-datacenter testing
• Engine-agnostic batch execution
• Platform reliability and scale
• Spark Pod Autosizing - CPU and memory allocations
• Understanding tradeoffs across execution models

Who You Are:

• You have 6+ years of experience
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, Python, Scala)
• Spark internals/infrastructure - executor lifecycle, memory model, dynamic allocation, resource tuning
• Experience building platform or infrastructure that other engineers depend on
• Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems
• Kubernetes fundamentals
• Excellent communication skills (English)
• High proactivity and cross-team collaboration experience
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: AI/LLM integration in engineering workflows & Observability and cost attribution

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.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive 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.

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