Datadog Senior Software Engineer at Datadog working on Streaming Platform Client libraries and control plane. Focus on performance, reliability, and developer experience for high-throughput data streams.
Responsibilities
Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services.
Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane.
Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency.
Champion the developer experience by providing exceptional support, technical documentation, and proactive troubleshooting for our wide user base.
Lead high-stakes technical projects, maintaining end-to-end accountability for their delivery and quality.
Collaborate with partner teams on delivering projects wider than your team's scope.
Mentor junior engineers and interns, fostering a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge.
Qualification
Bonus
Required
You are a self-starter who experiments methodically, iterates rapidly, and views failure as a learning opportunity.
You are a finisher who takes the projects through the finish line and does not stop at shipping code.
You thrive in collaborative environments, championing a blameless culture and actively fostering the growth of your teammates.
You communicate complex ideas effectively, with experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and leading high-impact technical initiatives.
You are deeply committed to user experience, ensuring the tools you build empower developers.
You have strong proficiency in low-level languages (ideally Rust).
You have a passion for deep-dive investigations, particularly in performance optimization and debugging complex systems.
You are curious about AI and actively leverage it to enhance your development workflow.
Bonus: Direct experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems like Kafka.
Bonus: Familiarity with language bindings and FFI.
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.
