datadog
Senior Software Engineer - Synthetics Platform
At a Glance
- Location
- New York, United States
- Work Regime
- onsite
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Posted
- 2026-05-21T09:12:02-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
Requirements
5+ years of experience in software engineering
You have programming experience with a structured programming language (Go, Python)
You have experience running production environments within one or several Cloud environments
You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems
You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g.
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)
Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Responsibilities
Deploy new Synthetics locations
Develop tooling to manage existing Synthetics locations
Design, plan, develop tools to do various type of migrations in a fully automated way without any downtime in many regions/cloud providers
Help shape new infrastructure technologies serving the Synthetics product
Be an expert helping Synthetics developers to make better architecture decisions and configure their services