Lead Software Engineer

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or high-scale infrastructure. Because Datadog collects metrics and events from 100+ different technologies and services out of the box, including other monitoring tools, you can monitor your entire stack in one place, without any gaps.

• Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
• Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
• Mentor other engineers on your team
• Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
• Design a new service and write an architecture RFC
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Requirements

• You have been building applications for 3+ years and know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages
• You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
• You care about code simplicity and performance
• You have operated systems that you built
• 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

Bonus points

• You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
• You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
• You have a strong background in statistics
• You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python