Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler) at Datadog

JobFluent; United States; Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Datadog in Madrid or remote is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler). You will help design, build and operate core profiling services at scale, enabling insights into application performance across production workloads.

You'll join multi-disciplinary squads, work with runtime engineers and data scientists, and own your code from development to production, aiming for ambitious SLOs and quality gates. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and Go is essential.
• Distributed systems engineer for high-performance, large-scale systems.
• Ability to review architectures and guide trade-offs.
• Experience with AI coding agents for performant results.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams.
• Knowledge of statistical methods (sampling, Bayesian optimization) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and contribute to core profiling services at scale.
• Collaborate in multi-disciplinary squads with customers to shape product experiences.
• Own code from development to production, meeting SLOs and quality gates.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders on data consumption (UI, tools, integrations).

Skills

Java

Go

Distributed systems

Code reviews

AI agents

Collaboration

Statistics

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler) in Madrid or Remote

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.
• 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+

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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