Staff Software Engineer

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their mission of building the world's best platform for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. Operating at massive scale with trillions of data points per day, this role offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology solutions. As a Staff Engineer, you'll be a technical leader focused on delivering solutions that will support Datadog's growth for the next five years and beyond.

The role combines hands-on technical work with technical leadership, where you'll be designing and implementing industry-leading systems in areas such as data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming. You'll be responsible for tackling complex architectural challenges that span across the organization, while also contributing to the staff engineering community to improve company-wide engineering standards.

Projects you might lead include designing new data storage engines handling hundreds of millions of records per second, spearheading new product initiatives in areas like synthetics or profiling, or re-architecting critical services to handle 100x scale increases. The position offers competitive compensation ($234,000 - $300,000) plus equity, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work remotely while making a significant impact at a rapidly growing, publicly-traded company (NASDAQ: DDOG).

The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise combined with proven leadership experience, thriving in an engineering culture that values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity in solving hard problems. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of observability and security solutions while working alongside world-class engineers in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.