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Senior Software Engineer - Alerting

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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will debug production issues, optimize critical services, lead architectural decisions, and manage an agile process in a collaborative environment.
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As Datadog builds more and more products integrated together, they all flow eventually in the Alerting platform, they all have their own failure modes and it’s a challenge to build a reliable platform on top of all of these different pipelines. Everything has to be built with robustness in mind.

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: 

  • Debug and solve challenging cross-systems issues in production
  • Remove scaling bottlenecks in critical services
  • Write a significant amount of code, lead architectural decisions for new and existing services
  • Run a lightweight agile process to pace and track what we work on and deliver high quality work

 

Who You Are: 

  • You have been building applications for some years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
  • You have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale
  • You've worked at high scale with systems like Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka
  • You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment to build a brand new product

 

Bonus Points:

  • You’ve built a non-trivial application from scratch that sees significant user traffic
  • You've worked at high scale with systems like Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka
  • You have significant experience with Go
  • You have deep experience with observability products

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 

 

Benefits and Growth: 

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits


Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.#LI-NC4

About Datadog: 

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. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

Top Skills

Cassandra
Elasticsearch
Go
Kafka

Datadog Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office

We are located steps away from Post Office Square. When we aren't eating locally catered lunches, food trucks & other restaurants are easily accessible!

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