Senior Backend Software Engineer - Product Analytics

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the Product Analytics Backend team, you will design, build, and maintain core backend systems, ensuring scalability and reliability while collaborating closely with frontend and platform teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain core backend systems for Product Analytics, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance
• Drive technical architecture decisions in alignment with product goals and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and query solutions to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on engineering work including coding, code reviews, and design reviews

Requirements:

• A seasoned backend engineer with deep expertise in designing and building distributed systems
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct management authority, operating as a technical leader and mentor
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners
• Strong technician, particularly with Go, Java or SQL, who is interested in remaining a hands-on contributor
• 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