# Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Bordeaux, France; Grenoble, France; Lyon, France; Madrid, Spain; Montpellier, France; Nantes, France; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications.

Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe.

The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability.

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:

- Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments

- Write in Go, Java, Rust or C++, amongst other languages

- Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components

- Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company

## Who You Are:

- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

- You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)

- You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)

- You can get down to the low-level when needed

- You care about simple designs and performance

- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

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

- You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

- Bonus: You're motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

## 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

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Java
- Rust
- C++
- Kafka
- Redis
- Cassandra
- Elasticsearch

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- AI coding tools

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