2 months ago
Base Salary
$192k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement resilient interactions between streaming client libraries and the control plane.
- Optimize the high-throughput, low-level streaming library for performance and efficiency.
- Provide developer support, technical documentation, and proactive troubleshooting for internal users.
- Lead high-stakes technical projects with end-to-end accountability for delivery and quality.
- Collaborate with partner teams on projects beyond the immediate team’s scope.
- Mentor junior engineers and interns and promote technical excellence and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in low-level programming languages, ideally Rust.
- Experience with performance optimization and debugging complex systems.
- Experience gathering stakeholder requirements and leading high-impact technical initiatives.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively and work collaboratively.
- Passion for developer experience, technical ownership, and deep-dive investigations.
- Experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems such as Kafka is preferred.
- Familiarity with language bindings and foreign function interfaces is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace.
- New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Continuous professional development, product training, career pathing, and mentoring programs.
- Inclusive company culture, Community Guilds, and Inclusion Talks.
- Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog
Datadog builds a SaaS observability and security platform that monitors infrastructure, applications, logs, and services for engineering and DevOps teams. Its products include infrastructure monitoring, APM, log management, real user monitoring, and cloud security, sold via subscriptions and used across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Datadog is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.