Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

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 will design, implement, and run production-level platforms that power applications, focusing on building scalable solutions and managing real-time data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience
• 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 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