Staff Software Engineer: Lead Scalable Anomaly Platform

Blue Line Search Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 244,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

Parental planning

Mental health benefits

401(k) plan and match

Paid time off

Fitness reimbursements

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the anomaly detection platform. You’ll lead architecture for large-scale distributed systems, shaping streaming and batch pipelines and driving modernization across products.

Collaborate with ML and data science teams to enable low-latency processing and deliver meaningful insights without manual configuration. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary and equity.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of streaming and batch processing architectures.
• Experience leading architectural initiatives and aligning with product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems powering anomaly detection.
• Design and improve high-throughput streaming and batch processing pipelines.
• Drive modernization to improve scalability, maintainability and efficiency.
• Partner with engineering leaders, PMs, and data scientists to set long-term strategy.
• Shape how anomaly detection capabilities are delivered across Datadog products.

Skills

Distributed systems

Streaming architectures

Go

Python

Kafka

Flink

Cassandra

ML familiarity

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the anomaly detection platform. You’ll lead architecture for large-scale distributed systems, shaping streaming and batch pipelines and driving modernization across products.

Collaborate with ML and data science teams to enable low-latency processing and deliver meaningful insights without manual configuration. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary and equity.