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