Staff Software Engineer - APM Troubleshooting Experience - Remote

Overview

Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides deep visibility into your applications, enabling you to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your services. Customers can ensure the best possible performance and user experience for their applications with distributed tracing, out-of-the-box dashboards and monitors, and seamless correlation with other telemetry data. They can also pinpoint root causes faster and deliver better user experiences — all from a single, unified platform.

In Short

• Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to make APM the best performance insights product on the market.
• Provide technical leadership across organizational boundaries to ensure maximum delivery efficiency.
• Lead and guide other engineers through product and architectural platform decisions.
• Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led planning and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with internal product teams to design solutions that meet our customer needs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 4+ years of technical leadership experience, including both effective communication of complex concepts and experience coordinating across teams to ship critical products
• Deep backend programming expertise — you’ve architected, built, and operated complex systems at scale.
• Customer-first mindset and a strong drive to build products that meet real needs.
• You care deeply about product quality and have clear, thoughtful opinions on how things should work.
• You value simplicity and clean design in systems, interfaces, and user experiences.
• You have a track record of taking full ownership of ambiguous and complex problems and turning them into solutions that deliver real value.
• Experience with browser or mobile applications is a plus.

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