Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler)

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity

ESPP

Professional growth

Mentorship program

Inclusive culture

Inclusion talks

Mental health benefits

Global benefits

Job summary

Datadog is hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer for the Continuous Profiler team. You will design, build, and operate core profiling services, enabling low-overhead production profiling across large-scale workloads.

You’ll collaborate with runtime engineers, data scientists, and designers to deliver impactful experiences for customers. You will own code end-to-end, engage with stakeholders, and help shape architecture in a hybrid Datadog environment, contributing to a range of integrations and

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and/or Go essential.
• Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems.
• Excellent communication skills (English).
• Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space.
• Experience working with AI coding agents to produce performant and maintainable results.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams.
• Nice to have: working knowledge of sampling strategies, Bayesian optimization, sensor fusion.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and contribute to core profiling services at scale.
• Iterate with customers and multi-disciplinary squads from exploration to product experiences.
• Own code from development to production, meeting SLOs and quality gates.
• Work with UI, agent tools, internal apps, integrations and partner products to consume profiling data.

Skills

Java

Go

Distributed systems

English communication

Architectural reviews

AI coding agents

Cross-team collaboration

Statistics basics

Job description

The Continuous Profiler team at Datadog is building a cutting-edge continuous profiling product that has low enough overhead to run continuously in production, unlocking insights into how customer applications perform under real workloads at scale. As AI reshapes software development and teams lose touch with how their code works and interacts with the hardware, this capability is becoming more essential than ever, for humans and AI alike. Today the information produced by our profilers is used for everything from automatic performance tuning to root cause analysis.

As a distributed systems engineer on the profiling team, you will be contributing to the systems that intake, process, index, store and make sense of the data collected. You will be working with some of the best runtime engineers, visualization experts, data scientists and designers in the industry on challenging and fun problems. Together, we contribute to runtime ecosystems such as Go and tackle novel problems, from profiling asynchronous Python applications to helping customers solve memory leaks in their applications.

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:

• Help design, build and contribute to the core services making the profiling product possible, at a scale that is unusual even within Datadog.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary squads, and iterate with customers, to bring ideas all the way from early explorations to impactful product experiences.
• You will be responsible for your code from development to production, and meet ambitious SLO and quality gates.
• You will be working with many internal and external stakeholders, working on various ways to consume the profiling data, such as the UI, agentic tools, internal applications, integrations and partner products.

Who You Are:

• Experience with Java and/or Go essential.
• Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems.
• Excellent communication skills (English).
• Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space.
• Experience working with AI coding agents to produce performant and maintainable results.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams.
• Working knowledge of statistical methods, such as sampling strategies, bayesian optimization, sensor fusion etc (nice to have).

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.

#LI-HybridDatadog 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, Datadog 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 Datadog is:$244,000-$305,000 USD

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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