Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform

About the role

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services. Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide. See our blog post. The Streaming Platform Client team sits at the heart of this ecosystem. We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python. We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library.

What they're looking for

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• You are a self-starter who experiments methodically, iterates rapidly, and views failure as a learning opportunity.
• You are a finisher who takes the projects through the finish line and does not stop at shipping code.
• You thrive in collaborative environments, championing a blameless culture and actively fostering the growth of your teammates.
• You communicate complex ideas effectively, with experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and leading high-impact technical initiatives.
• You are deeply committed to user experience, ensuring the tools you build empower developers.
• You have strong proficiency in low-level languages (ideally Rust).
• You have a passion for deep-dive investigations, particularly in performance optimization and debugging complex systems.
• You are curious about AI and actively leverage it to enhance your development workflow.
• Bonus: Direct experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems like Kafka.
• Bonus: Familiarity with language bindings and FFI.
• 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 & working conditions

• 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.