Senior Software Engineer - Bazel Tools

United States Digital Space LLC; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New hire stock equity

ESPP

Career development

Mentor program

Inclusive culture

Global benefits

401(k) plan and match

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own projects end-to-end on the Language Tools team. You will build, test, and ship greenfield and brownfield tooling that empower thousands of developers to compile and deploy across Go, Python, Java, Rust, and TypeScript in a large monorepo.

You’ll leverage Bazel and collaborate across teams in a hybrid office environment. The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and contributing to the Bazel ecosystem, with a culture that values

Qualifications

• Expertise in one or more of Go, Python, Java, Rust or TypeScript.
• Experience working on large codebases and modern monorepos.
• Strong collaboration and communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own projects from start to finish, including greenfield and brownfield work.
• Invent and improve build, test and packaging tooling.
• Push performance and cost efficiency at scale in CI pipelines.
• Prepare, run, and finish complex migrations.
• Contribute fixes and features back to the Bazel ecosystem.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Rust

TypeScript

Tools

Bazel

Job description

The Language Tools team enables ~1,500 the company developers to build, test, and package millions of lines of Go, Python, Java, Rust, and TypeScript in our backend monorepo. Our success is measured by their productivity and satisfaction. They use the tools that we develop and support several times a day, in both development and CI environments. We use the Bazel open source build system as a foundation.

The team is growing rapidly, both with the company and as we absorb other repositories into the monorepo. As a senior software engineer on the team, you will own projects from start to finish, both greenfield and brownfield. You will gain first-hand understanding of what the company developers need, and inform our roadmap.

At the company, 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.

the company 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.

What You’ll Do:

• Invent build, test and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable to use.
• Push performance and cost efficiency at scale, raising cache hit rates and cutting CI times and compute spend across millions of targets.
• Treat CI like SREs treat prod, making sure our pipelines are green and fast.
• Prepare, run, and finish complex migrations.
• Contribute back to the Bazel ecosystem, upstreaming fixes and shaping features we depend on.

Who You Are:

• An expert in Bazel and/or one of the languages listed above.
• A well-rounded engineer. You must broadly understand the various types of software projects that are built, tested, and packaged with our tools.
• Both careful and fearless. The changes we make impact the velocity of hundreds of engineers. They are risky but necessary.
• User-focused. We help the company engineers to use the tools that we develop, and continuously improve their usability, so they don’t need our help the next time.
• Ideally, you have experience working with a large codebase.

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 (the company 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 the company.

the company offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, the company offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at the company is:

$244,000 — $305,000 USD

About the company:

the company 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, the company enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the company Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at the company:

the company 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.

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