About the role
We're are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
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:
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
Who You Are:
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
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.