Senior Software Engineer
Core
Solve scaling bottlenecks, deploy features, and fix production issues for Datadog's high-scale observability platform.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (High Scale)
Builds
Scalable services, production features, and observability infrastructure for tens of thousands of companies.
Domain
Observability, High-Scale Systems, AI Era Infrastructure
Required skills
High-scale system architecture, AI coding tools proficiency, code simplicity and performance optimization, production issue resolution, feature flag management, team project planning
Preferred skills
Experience with Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, data pipeline development, statistics background, Go/C/Python expertise, AI product contribution (via careerplan.io/jobs/3851935-senior-software-engineer-at-datadog)
Technologies
Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Go, C, Python, Feature Flags, AI Coding Tools
Responsibilities
Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services, deploy new features with progressive rollouts, investigate and fix production issues, design services for high traffic, plan key team projects
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
