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DatadogDatadogBoston, MA

Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer leads design, architecture, and delivery of high-scale systems like data storage engines and monitoring products. Requires 10+ years experience, 4+ years technical leadership, and BS/MS/PhD or equivalent.

234k – 300k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

The Opportunity

Datadog’s Staff Engineers are technical leaders building solutions for next five years of growth. They deliver industry-leading systems in data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming; lead design and architectural problems; and improve company-wide standards.

Examples of projects: designing new data storage engine (hundreds of millions records/second), leading new products like synthetics or profiling, rebuilding services for massive scale.

Requirements

  • BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
  • 4+ years of technical leadership experience (manager or technical leader)
  • Led design and delivery of industry-leading systems with deep expertise or broad impact

You will

  • Be technical owner of critical architecture
  • Own delivery of systems from beginning-to-end at full scale
  • Dive deep into performance, invent efficient approaches at scale

Bonus

  • Excited about leveraging AI tools for coding, problem-solving, and building (or eager to learn)

Compensation: $234,000—$300,000 USD yearly, plus equity, variable compensation, comprehensive benefits (healthcare, dental, 401(k) match, PTO, fitness, ESPP). Actual based on skills, qualifications, experience.

Skills

Data VisualizationRuntime ProfilingStreaming SystemsData Storage EnginesSystem ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationScalable SystemsTechnical LeadershipAI Tools
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