datadog

Senior Software Engineer, Community Open Source Engineering

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At a Glance

Location
New York, United States
Work Regime
hybrid
Experience
3–5 years
Posted
2026-03-26T14:26:09-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

Rust

Requirements

You love talking with users and interacting with the open source community

You have experience managing an OSS project with a community of (internal and external) users and contributors

You have at least 3-5 years of experience with systems-level programming and preferably using Rust (or similar language)

You have experience with GitHub Actions and/or release management for complex software projects

You’ve worked on extract-transform-load tools or stream processing systems

Datadog values people from all walks of life.

Compensation & Benefits

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing

Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Competitive global benefits

Giving programs

Responsibilities

Assist with managing the Quickwit community, responsibilities include:

reviewing external contributions and ensuring codebase quality

triaging reported GitHub issues

Collect data to assess project health and usage, identifying areas for improvement.

Actively evangelize Quickwit to expand its reach and impact.

Advance the Quickwit roadmap.