Datadog · 3 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$130K/yr - $300K/yr
6+ years expDatadog is on a mission to build the best platform for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for solving scaling bottlenecks, deploying new features, investigating production issues, and designing scalable services.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next
Qualification
Required
You have significant experience in one or more languages
You value code simplicity and performance
You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
6+ years of experience
Preferred
You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
You have a strong background in statistics
You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
You're excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
Benefits
Healthcare
Dental
Parental planning
Mental health benefits
A 401(k) plan and match
Paid time off
Fitness reimbursements
A discounted employee stock purchase plan
Company
Datadog
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthIndex VenturesOpenView
2024-12-09Post Ipo Debt· $870M
2020-05-28Post Ipo Debt
2019-09-19IPO
Leadership Team
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder, CEO
Alexis Le-Quoc
Co-founder & CTO
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