# Senior Software Engineer 

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** Boston, MA, New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, C, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Ai Coding Tools, Data Pipelines, Statistics
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Senior engineer designing and scaling high-traffic distributed services, deploying features with flags, and troubleshooting production issues. Requires 6+ years experience, architecture skills, and AI tool fluency.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
- Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
- Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
- Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
- With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

## Requirements
- Significant experience in one or more languages
- Value code simplicity and performance
- Can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
- BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- Want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
- Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
- 6+ years of experience

## Nice-to-Haves
- Worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
- Wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
- Strong background in statistics
- Significant experience with Go, C, or Python
- Excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
- Motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

## Compensation & Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
- Generous global benefits
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds

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