Senior Software Engineer - Synthetics Platform

Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. The Senior Software Engineer on the Synthetics Platform team will be responsible for deploying new locations, developing management tooling, and shaping infrastructure technologies for Synthetics products.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy new Synthetics locations
• Develop tooling to manage existing Synthetics locations
• Design, plan, develop tools to do various type of migrations in a fully automated way without any downtime in many regions/cloud providers
• Help shape new infrastructure technologies serving the Synthetics product
• Be an expert helping Synthetics developers to make better architecture decisions and configure their services

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• You have programming experience with a structured programming language (Go, Python)
• You have experience running production environments within one or several Cloud environments
• You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
• You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems
• You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka, Redis