# Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

**Company**: Datadog
**Location**: Boston, MA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,000-$240,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Datadog, you will 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.

You will:

- 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, and grow with the company

Requirements:

- 6+ years of experience

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

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

- Experience working on problems with high durability, low latency, and scalability requirements

- Ability to get down to the low-level when needed

- Care about simple designs and performance

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

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

Benefits:

- 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

- Inclusive company culture, ability to join Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

- Access to Inclusion Talks, 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

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