datadog
Senior Software Engineer, Community Open Source Engineering
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
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.