Datadog · 6 days ago
Senior Staff Engineer - Event Platform Storage
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$272K/yr - $340K/yr
2+ years expDatadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud migration. They are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their Event Platform Storage team, where the main responsibility will be to enhance the platform's resilience and scalability while collaborating with multiple teams.
AnalyticsCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCloud InfrastructureData ManagementDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform's resilience and scalability across multiple teams
Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them
Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the event platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers
Qualification
Required
You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years
Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization
You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns
You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
You have significant back end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale
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
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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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