Staff Engineer - Core Analytics - Remote

Overview

The Core Analytics Team is responsible for delivering analytics, data products, and insights across all of Datadog. We support various business functions, including Go-to-Market, Strategy, Customer Success, Community, Product Management, and Engineering.

In Short

• Design and implement high-value, high-visibility projects, navigating ambiguity and guiding other engineers.
• Provide technical leadership across one or more areas of the platform.
• Lead and mentor engineers through architectural and platform decisions.
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them.
• Contribute to prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in both short-term and long-term planning and roadmaps.

Requirements

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent professional experience.
• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years.
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns.
• You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale.
• You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become even stronger.
• Experienced in building high volume and reliable data pipelines for real customers in production systems.
• Fluent in several programming languages (JVM & otherwise).
• Skilled in wrangling huge amounts of data and enjoy exploring new data sets.
• Someone who values code simplicity and performance.
• Interested in working in a fast-paced, high growth environment that respects its engineers and customers.

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.