Datadog

Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

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3 months ago
Paris, France +2 moreSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Build a query engine supporting efficient relationship traversals for demanding workloads.
  • Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects that increase REDAPL’s value, resilience, and scalability across teams.
  • Lead and guide engineers through architectural platform decisions.
  • Identify system risks and reliability trends and design solutions to address them.
  • Provide input on prioritizing engineering initiatives and short- and long-term roadmaps.
  • Collaborate with internal product teams on requirements and growth planning as they integrate with and depend on REDAPL.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related scientific field, or equivalent experience.
  • Extensive experience working with multiple types of data stores.
  • Several years of experience contributing to platform- or infrastructure-focused initiatives.
  • Experience leading impactful technical initiatives where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience or operability are critical.
  • Significant backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems at high scale.
  • Bonus: experience with graph databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune, or PuppyGraph.
  • Bonus: production-grade experience with Apache Iceberg.
  • Bonus: strong understanding of query planning or contributions to production-grade query engines or related projects such as Trino, Calcite, Substrait, or DataFusion.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace with flexibility to support work-life harmony.
  • Competitive global benefits, varying by country and employment type.
  • Continuous professional development.
  • Opportunity to influence product direction and business impact.
  • Collaboration with skilled and supportive teammates.

Tech Stack

Neo4j

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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