About the role
Events are a crucial component of our product that records notable changes relevant for managing and troubleshooting IT operations for customers, such as code deployments, service health, configuration changes, or monitoring alerts. At datadog, we provide a high scalable, low latency and high durable pipeline to ingest, store, analyze and query events for customers in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe, and then we provide other features like event correlation, event metrics/monitor to help bring value to user. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:
Build and operate distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines
Do it in Go and Java, with bits of Python or 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
Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
Debug and solve challenging cross-systems issues in production
Remove scaling and reliability bottlenecks in critical services
Design and architecture the more effective data pipeline using modern architecture
Write a significant amount of code, lead architectural decisions for new and existing services
Who You Are:
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, Python) and experience working on large scale and low latency systems
You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
You have proven ability to architect, build, and operate distributed systems to solve problems at high scale
You can get down to the low-level when needed
You care about code simplicity and performance
You are accountable team player that likes to get things done
About the company
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.