Staff Software Engineer

Datadog is a global SaaS business on a mission to build the best platform for engineers to understand and scale their systems. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will be a technical leader, responsible for architecting and delivering critical systems while driving efficiency and performance at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
• Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
• Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale

Requirements:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, either as a manager or technical leader
• You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems, either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a company's engineering org
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• you're motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products