Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. 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.

Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments

Write in Go, Java, Rust or C++, amongst 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

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, Rust, C++)

You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)

You can get down to the low-level when needed

You care about simple designs and performance

You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how