Datadog

Staff Software Engineer – Logs Management

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6 months ago

Base Salary

$234k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Managers to define ambiguous product requirements and prioritize impactful customer solutions.
  • Lead technical strategy and execution for systems supporting log query performance and ingestion at scale.
  • Explore and prototype capabilities spanning AI-powered log management, security, business operations, advanced queries, and external data sources.
  • Mentor engineers across levels and help grow a high-performing collaborative team.
  • Influence product strategy and initiatives across the Logs organization.

Requirements

  • Deep experience architecting and scaling backend systems, particularly data-intensive or distributed infrastructure.
  • Experience defining product direction and shipping impactful features in partnership with Product Managers and customers.
  • Expertise debugging complex systems and optimizing performance across real-time data pipelines.
  • Ability to lead technical strategy and execution in ambiguous environments.
  • Curiosity about emerging technologies such as AI and automated observability.
  • Strong mentorship, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model.
  • Generous benefits package, including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
  • New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous career development, onboarding, internal mentoring, and a cross-departmental buddy program.
  • Inclusive and collaborative workplace culture.

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Datadog

1,001-5,000 employees

Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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