Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability

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At Datadog, we’re building the platform that enables engineers to monitor, secure, and scale their infrastructure and applications - powering reliability and performance across thousands of companies. We ingest trillions of data points each day and tackle challenges of scale, speed, and resilience. We’re looking for experienced backend engineers who want to take ownership of critical services and deepen their expertise in distributed systems. Whether you've built APIs, pipelines, or backend tooling, this role is a chance to grow your impact while learning how to design and operate high-scale, high-availability systems that support observability and security products used by engineers around the world. 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: Design and build reliable backend services that handle high-throughput, globally distributed workloads Own core components that power products relied on by thousands of engineering teams worldwide Collaborate with other experienced engineers to evolve system architecture with a focus on scalability and resilience Learn and apply distributed systems design patterns in a production setting Ship production-grade code in languages like Go, Python, or Java Contribute to team culture through code reviews, architecture discussions, and mentorship of peers and junior engineers <

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