Top Engineering Jobs in New York City, NY

Build and operate internal platforms, systems, and tooling that support reliable, performant, and secure products. Responsibilities may include managing large cloud infrastructure deployments, leading reliability initiatives, developing release machinery for large engineering organizations, and working with distributed systems, container orchestration, service discovery, networking, databases, and infrastructure automation. Engineers may also use AI tools to improve coding and problem-solving.

Leads the Database Monitoring engineering organization, owning product strategy, roadmap, AI feature development, market expansion, customer adoption, and commercial outcomes. Builds and scales engineering teams across geographies by hiring, mentoring, coaching, and structuring engineering managers and staff engineers. Partners with Product and customers to refine experiences, achieve product-market fit, and deliver measurable value. Requires experience deploying applications on PostgreSQL.

Lead the design and delivery of next-generation frontend technology at Datadog. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, leading major product and website redesigns, owning core customer experiences, coordinating cross-team technical initiatives, and developing high-complexity, high-performance interactive browser applications. The role requires strong UI/UX judgment, experimentation expertise, architectural leadership, and deep React experience.

Software Engineering Interns contribute to Datadog’s observability and security platform by building and improving backend, frontend, infrastructure, data engineering, and developer tooling systems. Responsibilities include developing distributed and cloud-native services, addressing performance and scalability challenges, delivering technical projects from design through deployment, and collaborating with experienced engineers and mentors.

Lead a five-engineer Coordination Systems Storage team responsible for distributed configuration storage and distribution systems. Manage prioritization, delegation, ceremonies, incidents, root cause analysis, and operational excellence initiatives. Remain hands-on through feature development, remediation, investigations, performance optimization, and profiling. Collaborate with internal platform stakeholders while improving reliability through gamedays, operational reviews, validation, and proactive incident prevention.

Lead design and delivery of Datadog implementations: gather requirements, build technical architecture, write deployment automation, manage implementation projects, and guide customer onboarding and launches.

Lead a small engineering team building internal change-management platforms (UI, CLI, notification/subscription systems, workflows, governance). Set technical direction, partner with infrastructure and product teams, drive adoption and reliability, remain hands-on to unblock work, and run OKR and career/performance processes to align the team with business goals.

Partners with strategic customers to architect, prototype, implement, and migrate feature flag systems across complex technology environments. Writes production code in customer codebases, supports pre- and post-sales delivery, resolves technical risks, and collaborates with Sales, Solutions, Product, and Engineering. The role drives successful migrations, customer adoption, and product improvements while simplifying complex technical decisions for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Operate and scale a high-throughput Kafka streaming platform: investigate incidents, optimize performance, integrate open-source components, develop control and data plane tooling, tweak low-level client behavior, drive complex projects, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead technical due diligence for M&A and investments by evaluating product architecture, standing up proofs-of-concept, assessing risks and integration paths, and advising senior leadership. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security to test candidate startups, recommend roadmaps, and help carry integrations through to completion.