# Staff Software Engineer – Logs Observability Pipelines

**Company:** [Datadog](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/datadog)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $234k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** Go, Rust, C++, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-03-23

> Staff engineer builds and scales high-throughput log processing pipelines for customer-managed infrastructure, focusing on observability data routing and storage. Requires expertise in distributed systems, systems programming (Go/Rust/C++), Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Drive the architecture and technical direction for unifying observability pipelines and on-prem observability storage into a cohesive BYOC Logs experience
- Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments
- Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects
- Design and implement software that runs reliably within customer-managed infrastructure, including on-prem and cloud environments
- Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning
- Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments

## Who You Are

- Experience building and operating software deployed in customer-managed or on-prem environments, not just SaaS platforms
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, including scalability, performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing
- Proficient in systems-level programming (**Go**, **Rust**, or **C++**) and understand how software runs across diverse environments (**Linux** systems)
- Experience with cloud platforms (**AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**) and comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure and networking issues
- Experienced with containerization and orchestration technologies such as **Kubernetes** in production environments
- Track record of leading large, cross-functional engineering efforts and influencing technical direction across teams

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