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DatadogDatadogNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer - Synthetics Platform

Senior software engineer on the Synthetics Platform team responsible for deploying and managing infrastructure across 30+ regions and 3 cloud providers. Focuses on automated migrations, tooling, and helping developers with architecture decisions using Go/Python and distributed systems.

130k – 300k
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Deploy new Synthetics locations
  • Develop tooling to manage existing Synthetics locations
  • Design, plan, and develop tools to perform various types of migrations in a fully automated way without any downtime across many regions and cloud providers
  • Help shape new infrastructure technologies serving the Synthetics product
  • Be an expert helping Synthetics developers make better architecture decisions and configure their services

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Programming experience with a structured programming language (Go, Python)
  • Experience running production environments within one or several Cloud environments
  • Value correctness and efficiency; thorough when diagnosing production issues
  • Handle infrastructure with code; leverage automation to focus on complex problems
  • Production experience with distributed compute/storage tools (e.g. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka, Redis)

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with systems and tooling including: Terraform, Bazel, Temporal, build tooling, configuration management, container orchestration

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
  • Access to Inclusion Talks and Community Guilds (employee resource groups)
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan

Skills

GoPythonKubernetesTerraformPostgresRedisCassandraKafkaBazelTemporal

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