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Datadog

Staff Engineer - Data Platform Experience

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about 4 hours ago
Paris, France +2 moreStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic engineering initiatives for teams building, operating, and evolving services on the Observability Data Platform.
  • Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations.
  • Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling for platform health, incident troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
  • Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy and reduce operational complexity.
  • Provide cross-team technical leadership through architecture influence, mentoring, engineering standards, and hands-on contributions.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation and improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep distributed systems expertise.
  • Strong software architecture and system design skills, with experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
  • A platform engineering mindset and interest in building reusable capabilities for other engineering organizations.
  • Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority and collaborate across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience with Java, Go, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with observability platforms, internal developer platforms, operational tooling, developer productivity solutions, or AI-powered engineering workflows is beneficial but not required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace arrangement
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Employee-focused onboarding
  • Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

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BackendData Engineering
Datadog

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.