datadog

Senior Software Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Experience
6+ years
Posted
2026-02-18T14:42:52-05:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

KafkaPythonRedis

Domain Knowledge

  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Legal
  • SaaS

Requirements

You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale

You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers

You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka

You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before

You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python

You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

About the Company

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 companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.