Senior Software Engineer - Metrics Intake Processing

Metrics Platform stores and serves time-series data. Every day we ingest double-digit trillions of points and serve double-digit billions of queries. We power multiple Datadog products such as standard & custom metrics, infrastructure hosts, dashboards, metric-based monitors, SLOs to name a few. We work on new product functionality along with scalability and efficiency. We develop in modern programming languages (Rust, Go), frameworks (Glommio, Spark), storage engine (RocksDB).

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:

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
  
• Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages
  
• Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components
  
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
  

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
  
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
  
• You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /...)
  
• You have experience operating high-criticality services to maintain SLA's
  
• You can get down to the low-level when needed
  
• You care about simple designs and performance
  
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
  

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

Benefits and Growth:

• 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.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
$200,000-$240,000 USD