Staff Software Engineer - Action Platform (EMEA) - Remote

Overview

We’re looking for a talented Staff Engineer to help us secure, scale and innovate our Action Platform. Our platform powers integrations with third-party systems for various products, including Workflow Automation, App Builder, and more.

In Short

• Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform's resilience and scalability across multiple teams
• Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them
• Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
• Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the event platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers

Requirements

• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years.
• Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization.
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns
• You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
• You have significant back end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale

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