Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client

You communicate complex ideas effectively, with experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and leading high-impact technical initiatives.

You have a passion for deep-dive investigations, particularly in performance optimization and debugging complex systems.

You are curious about AI and actively leverage it to enhance your development workflow.

Bonus: Direct experience operating or using large-scale streaming systems like Kafka.

Datadog values people from all walks of life.

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)

Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions

Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services.

Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane.

Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency.

Champion the developer experience by providing exceptional support, technical documentation, and proactive troubleshooting for our wide user base.

Lead high-stakes technical projects, maintaining end-to-end accountability for their delivery and quality.

Collaborate with partner teams on delivering projects wider than your team's scope.