Datadog

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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Paris, FranceSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services.
  • Deploy production features using progressive rollouts and feature flags.
  • Investigate and resolve production issues in team-owned services.
  • Design architectures and services to support increased traffic at high scale.
  • Collaborate with the team to prioritize and plan upcoming projects.
  • Design AI backend systems while considering quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs.
  • Use AI coding tools to build, validate, and refine product code.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in one or more programming languages.
  • Ability to design architecture for high-scale systems.
  • Commitment to code simplicity and performance.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in a scientific field, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and refine AI-generated output in products.
  • Ability to design AI backend systems with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs.
  • Motivation to improve software engineering practices and contribute to AI-enabled products is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace.
  • New-hire stock equity through RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
  • Inclusive company culture and access to Community Guilds employee resource groups.
  • Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions.
  • Global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6 and older.
  • Competitive global benefits that may vary by country and employment type.

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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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