Senior Staff Software Engineer

About the role

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

What they’re looking for

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• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent practical experience.
• You have 10+ years of backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience.
• You have 4+ years of experience leading complex technical initiatives and cross-team projects.You have designed and delivered systems that are deeply technical, highly reliable, and serve critical business needs.
• You can navigate and make progress in ambiguous problem spaces, identifying the right problems to solve.
• You have exceptional communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared technical vision.
• You have deep expertise in one or more core systems domains—such as distributed storage, event streaming, networking, data infrastructure, or large-scale observability—and broad awareness of adjacent areas.
• You care about getting things right, not just getting them done, and you raise the bar for engineering quality around you.
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

Benefits & working conditions

• Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
• Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
• Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
• Competitive global benefits
• Continuous professional development
• Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
• #LI-Hybrid
• The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:
• $272,000—$340,000 USD