Senior Staff Software Engineer
About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of co
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Senior Staff Software Engineer at Datadog in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Datadog: We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of co
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- Be the technical owner of multiple critical systems or architecture areas, often spanning several teams or product lines.
- Drive the design and delivery of high-scale, high-impact projects, from vision to execution in production.
- Build consensus and alignment across stakeholders on key architectural decisions and long-term strategy.
- Deeply investigate and optimize performance, reliability, and efficiency in large-scale distributed systems.
- Collaborate with Staff Engineers, Directors, and VPs across the company to shape Datadog’s technical roadmap.
- Guide teams through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements with clear technical direction.
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- Actively mentor engineers and influence engineering culture through leadership in design reviews, technical talks, and working groups.
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent practical experience.
- You have 10+ years of backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience.
- You have 4+ years of experience leading complex technical initiatives and cross-team projects. You have designed and delivered systems that are deeply technical, highly reliable, and serve critical business needs.
- You can navigate and make progress in ambiguous problem spaces, identifying the right problems to solve.
- You have exceptional communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared technical vision.
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- Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
- Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
- Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
- Competitive global benefits
- Continuous professional development
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