Staff Software Engineer - Analytics Data Platform - Remote

Overview

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Analytics Data Platform department and help scale our data processing platform, which enables hundreds of data practitioners and AI Engineers at Datadog to build, deploy, and operate both batch and stateful streaming data pipelines at scale.

In Short

• Work alongside teams of engineers and steer the design, implementation and deployment of scalable data processing infrastructure and tools (Flink, Spark, PySpark, Kubernetes).
• Enable the productization of Datadog’s AI effort by supporting Ray in a managed, scalable and isolated environment.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to ensure that the platform provides the best infrastructure for Datadog’s products.
• Contribute to open-source development of Flink and Spark to make sure they support Datadog’s usage.
• Identify scalability, reliability and efficiency risks and design solutions to address them, driving the growth of batch and streaming frameworks at Datadog.
• Lead and support the team through mentorship, technical leadership, project prioritization and process improvements.

Requirements

• You are a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience driving architecture and execution for cross-team engineering initiatives focused on distributed systems and stream processing applications.
• You care about reliability and efficiency, designing resilient and performant systems.
• You cut through ambiguity, route around blockers and act as a force multiplier for your team, enabling them to ship quickly and safely.
• You have experience leading projects that span data engineering, data science and infrastructure.
• You’re happy to jump into any part of the stack and do whatever’s needed to move a project forward.

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.