Staff Software Engineer

Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team as a technical leader who will shape the future of their cloud monitoring and security platform. This role combines hands-on technical excellence with strategic leadership, focusing on building solutions that scale for the next five years of company growth. The position offers the opportunity to work on critical systems handling hundreds of millions of records per second and lead major initiatives like new product development or large-scale system redesigns.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll be part of an elite technical community that influences company-wide engineering standards and practices. The role demands expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and large-scale architecture. You'll be working remotely, with the flexibility to collaborate with teams across Europe, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Datadog's position as a leading SaaS company (NASDAQ: DDOG) offers unique opportunities to work on challenging technical problems at scale. The company's culture emphasizes professional growth, diversity, and innovation, supported by comprehensive benefits including equity grants and extensive learning resources. This role is perfect for experienced engineers who want to make a significant impact on products used by organizations worldwide for cloud monitoring and security.

The ideal candidate will combine deep technical knowledge with proven leadership experience, capable of both hands-on development and guiding technical strategy. You'll be instrumental in solving complex challenges in data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming systems, while helping to shape the future of cloud observability and security.