Software Engineer with Systems Depth

Datadog, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 192,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Parental planning

Mental health benefits

401(k) match

Job summary

Datadog is seeking Software Engineers with Systems depth to build and operate internal platforms that power scalable cloud infrastructure. You will leverage experience in large deployments, reliability, and tooling to keep Datadog performant, secure, and dependable.

Candidates with hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and related tooling will excel as they collaborate with teams across the org to enable hundreds of developers to work efficiently.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure and reliability initiatives.
• Ability to design and operate internal platforms for SaaS products.
• Familiarity with container orchestration, deployment tooling, and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Docker

Service discovery

Load balancing

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Networking

CI/CD tooling

Tools

Bazel

Build tooling

Consul

HAProxy

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Spinnaker

Zookeeper

Envoy

Job description

Datadog's Software Engineers with Systems depth leverage their experience with systems and tooling to build software that ensures Datadog remains reliable, performant, and secure.

For this track, their Software Engineering experience may resemble the Distributed Systems track, but is typically applied in combination with their systems experience to build and run internal platforms and tools that our products are built on. These people typically have deep experience building and managing large cloud infrastructure deployments, or leading reliability efforts for orgs similar to ours, or building release machinery to allow hundreds or thousands of devs to do their jobs without stepping on each others' toes.

Systems and Tooling Expertise

The systems and tooling where they may have experience depth may include (but not limited to):

• bazel
• build tooling
• cassandra
• CDN
• chef
• configuration management
• container orchestration
• consul
• docker
• elasticsearch envoy
• haproxy
• kafka
• kubernetes
• load balancing
• network architecture
• postgres
• redis
• release management
• RPC frameworks
• service discovery
• spinnaker
• terraform
• zookeeper

Bonus

You're excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build - or eager to learn how

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.

#LI-KM5

Datadog 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:

$192,000 - $240,000 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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