Datadog

Staff Engineer, Compute

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5 hours ago
Lisbon, PortugalStaff+
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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

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.