Senior Software Engineer - Database Monitoring (Postgres)

The Database Monitoring team at Datadog is building industry-revolutionizing products to automatically pinpoint our customers’ database problems and proactively improve query performance. Join a successful product team transforming the way our industry operates data stores. Some examples of projects you will execute on include:

• Software to recommend opinionated performance improvements like index recommendations, query rewrites, and schema changes, then directly open a pull request to fix them
• Jobs which assess performance changes in a Postgres database and diagnoses the root cause with high confidence using a combination of expert systems and LLM agents
• A feature to tune database parameters and dynamically adjust them for improved performance
• Drop-in CI/CD checks to prevent common database failure modes
• Collect telemetry from SQL client drivers (e.g. JDBC) and connection pools 

• Lead development of greenfield tooling for the Postgres ecosystem from the ground up

• Design, build, and drive high-priority, high-impact projects like the ones described above
• Build fault-tolerant, scalable software to run in customer environments and the Datadog backend
• Contribute features, fixes, and architecture enhancements to our open-source Datadog Agent collector in Python and Go
• Write precise, well-tested code in Go, Python, and C++, amongst other languages
• Use Postgres, Kafka, and GRPC, alongside other open-source technologies

• Have opportunities to author Postgres extensions (e.g. pg_tracing) or contribute to core

• You have battle-tested experience with Postgres at scale (e.g. one or more of: autovacuum tuning, partitioning large tables, logical replication, wait event analysis, explain plan analysis, GIN indexes, GUC parameters, pgvector, deadlocks to name a few), and/or have intimate knowledge of internals
• You have experience writing application software which interacts with Postgres
• You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

If these sound exciting to you, let’s talk!