datadog

Senior Software Engineer - Synthetics Platform

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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

KafkaKubernetesPostgreSQLPythonRedis

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