2 months ago
Lisbon, PortugalStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction of capacity management and workload placement for Datadog’s Kubernetes platform spanning more than 100,000 virtual machines.
- Design and build systems that schedule and deploy workloads across regions while balancing capacity constraints, reliability, and performance.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to evolve multi-region and multi-cloud capacity orchestration.
- Develop production software in Go to improve Kubernetes platform capabilities, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Use data and capacity signals to influence infrastructure decisions, forecast growth, and improve workload placement strategies.
Requirements
- Significant experience designing and operating large-scale Kubernetes-based infrastructure or platform systems.
- Strong software engineering and programming skills, ideally in Go or a comparable systems programming language.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Understanding of distributed cloud infrastructure and a strong systems mindset.
- Experience working with operational data, capacity forecasting, or analytical approaches that inform engineering decisions.
- Proven technical leadership across teams and ability to influence architecture without direct management authority.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace arrangement
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- 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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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.