Staff Software Engineer - Analytics Data Platform
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Analytics Data Platform department and help scale our data processing platform, which enables hundreds of data practitioners and AI Engineers at Datadog to build, deploy, and operate both batch and stateful streaming data pipelines at scale.
The Analytics Data Platform organization provides a fully managed, integrated ecosystem that empowers teams across the company to easily create, manage, access, and use data. Our platform supports customer-facing products that rely on analytical data—such as Cloud Cost Management, Metrics, Security, Applied AI, and Product Analytics—as well as internal analytics use cases. Today, we run over 400,000 batch jobs per day, process millions of events per second in Flink, and power data governance and analytical workloads through our Lakehouse offering.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
Work alongside teams of engineers and steer the design, implementation and deployment of scalable data processing infrastructure and tools (Flink, Spark, PySpark, Kubernetes).
Enable the productization of Datadog’s AI effort by supporting Ray in a managed, scalable and isolated environment.
Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to ensure that the platform provides the best infrastructure for Datadog’s products.
Contribute to open-source development of Flink and Spark to make sure they support Datadog’s usage.
Identify scalability, reliability and efficiency risks and design solutions to address them, driving the growth of batch and streaming frameworks at Datadog.
Lead and support the team through mentorship, technical leadership, project prioritization and process improvements.
Who You Are:
You are a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience driving architecture and execution for cross-team engineering initiatives focused on distributed systems and stream processing applications
You care about reliability and efficiency, designing resilient and performant systems
You cut through ambiguity, route around blockers and act as a force multiplier for your team, enabling them to ship quickly and safely.
You have experience leading projects that span data engineering, data science and infrastructure.
You’re happy to jump into any part of the stack and do whatever’s needed to move a project forward
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.
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.
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Staff Software Engineer - Analytics Data Platform
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Analytics Data Platform department and help scale our data processing platform, which enables hundreds of data practitioners and AI Engineers at Datadog to build, deploy, and operate both batch and stateful streaming data pipelines at scale.
The Analytics Data Platform organization provides a fully managed, integrated ecosystem that empowers teams across the company to easily create, manage, access, and use data. Our platform supports customer-facing products that rely on analytical data—such as Cloud Cost Management, Metrics, Security, Applied AI, and Product Analytics—as well as internal analytics use cases. Today, we run over 400,000 batch jobs per day, process millions of events per second in Flink, and power data governance and analytical workloads through our Lakehouse offering.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
Work alongside teams of engineers and steer the design, implementation and deployment of scalable data processing infrastructure and tools (Flink, Spark, PySpark, Kubernetes).
Enable the productization of Datadog’s AI effort by supporting Ray in a managed, scalable and isolated environment.
Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to ensure that the platform provides the best infrastructure for Datadog’s products.
Contribute to open-source development of Flink and Spark to make sure they support Datadog’s usage.
Identify scalability, reliability and efficiency risks and design solutions to address them, driving the growth of batch and streaming frameworks at Datadog.
Lead and support the team through mentorship, technical leadership, project prioritization and process improvements.
Who You Are:
You are a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience driving architecture and execution for cross-team engineering initiatives focused on distributed systems and stream processing applications
You care about reliability and efficiency, designing resilient and performant systems
You cut through ambiguity, route around blockers and act as a force multiplier for your team, enabling them to ship quickly and safely.
You have experience leading projects that span data engineering, data science and infrastructure.
You’re happy to jump into any part of the stack and do whatever’s needed to move a project forward
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.
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.