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The Metrics Intake team is responsible for building and maintaining a suite of low-latency, high availability services that receive and process every metric that is written to Datadog. These services handle petabytes of data per day in data centers around the world. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join a highly motivated team of engineers in developing the next generation of these services.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the development of new intake pipeline capabilities in Go and Rust, authoring design docs, creating project plans, implementing features, and delegating work to teammates
- Propose and ship optimizations that improve the resilience, availability and efficiency of the team’s services.
- Participate in the team’s oncall rotation, responding to production incidents, authoring postmortems, and driving incident remediations.
- Collaborate with management and product leaders to define well-prioritized OKRs and roadmaps to maximize the team’s impact.
Who You Are:
- You have built and operated high availability distributed systems in production (ideally with high traffic, i.e. millions of requests per second).
- You have a strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, including concepts such as scalability, fault tolerance, consistency and concurrency.
- You are experienced with being on-call, leading incident responses, writing post mortems, and driving remediation efforts.
- You have experience writing native code (C, C++, Rust) and optimizing system performance
- You enjoy mentoring other engineers and being part of a highly collaborative team
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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