Staff Engineer, Data Platform Experience

Datadog; Lisbon (ME); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits

RSUs

Stock purchase plan

Career development

Internal mentor program

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team to shape how engineering groups build, operate, and evolve the Observability Data Platform. You will lead design and delivery of shared platform capabilities, reducing developer friction and enabling teams to move faster with confidence.

You will design scalable platform features for cost intelligence, provide technical leadership across teams, and help improve platform reliability and observability while contributing

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms.
• Strong architecture and system design skills leading complex initiatives.
• Platform engineering mindset enabling reuse and collaboration across teams; effective cross-boundary communicator.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform.
• Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations.
• Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency.
• Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products.
• Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Platform engineering mindset

Communication

Java

Go

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team to shape how engineering groups build, operate, and evolve the Observability Data Platform. You will lead design and delivery of shared platform capabilities, reducing developer friction and enabling teams to move faster with confidence.

You will design scalable platform features for cost intelligence, provide technical leadership across teams, and help improve platform reliability and observability while contributing