Datadog
Senior Software Engineer
$192K–$240K
Boston, Massachusetts, USA +11 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2022
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, MA, United States
Denver, Colorado, United States
New York, NY, United States
Remote
Remote - Alberta
Colorado, United States
New Jersey, United States
New York, United States
Virginia, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of experience.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Some roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
About the job
Build and scale critical Datadog services, ship features, resolve production issues, and design AI backend systems.
What you'll do
- Resolve scaling bottlenecks, design services for increased traffic, and deploy features using progressive rollouts with feature flags.
- Investigate and fix production issues in services owned by the team.
- Plan upcoming projects with the team.
What they ask for
- Significant experience in one or more programming languages.
- Ability to design architecture for high-scale problems and value simplicity and performance.
- BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
- Ability to design AI backend systems with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs.
Nice to have
- Experience with Redis, Cassandra, or Kafka; data pipelines; or a strong statistics background.
- Significant experience with Go, C, or Python.
Pay
$192,000 — $240,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, Go, C, Python
AI focus
Use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows; build, validate, and refine AI-generated product output; design AI backend systems while considering quality, cost, and latency.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative