Software Engineer - Fabric RPC - Remote

Overview

The Fabric Remote Procedure Call (RPC) team at Datadog provides safe, reliable and scalable internal service-to-service communication for Datadog’s engineering teams. In this role, you’ll develop and maintain data plane components and network control plane integrations for east-west internal service communication for the services that power Datadog’s products.

In Short

• Work with internal engineers and open source maintainers to build features and optimizations that reduce overhead of doing high-throughput network communications at scale
• Provide both out-of-the-box best practices experience for users as well as deep dives into Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium, gRPC, and related systems

Requirements

• Someone who can operate independently, methodically experiment, rapidly iterate, and has no fear of failure
• Experienced in Golang, gRPC, xDS, Envoy, Cilium, eBPF, Kubernetes, Linux and data center networking concepts (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, routing, NAT)
• Bonus: Prior experience with kubernetes controllers, gRPC, Envoy or other load balancers

Benefits

• 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