Senior Software Engineer - Backend

We are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do

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

With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Who You Are

You have significant experience in one or more languages

You value code simplicity and performance

You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale

You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

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 build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products

You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs

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. We understand not everyone will meet all the abo