Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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

You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output

Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products

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+

Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service

Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags

Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns

Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic