datadog
Senior Software Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- United States
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Posted
- 2026-02-18T14:42:52-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
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.