Datadog

Datadog

Staff Software Engineer - Watchdog Anomaly Detection

New York, New York, USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$244k-$305kDetected 23 hours ago
PythonDistributed SystemsCassandraDatadogKafkaMachine LearningAccessibilityLeadershipCollaboration

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Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Level II$137,7172 entries
Level III$165,5893 entries
Level IV$193,4614 entries

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Green-card follow-through: 100%

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About the role

  • Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
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Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems that power automated anomaly detection across Datadog's platform.
  • Design and improve high-throughput streaming and batch processing pipelines, enabling timely and reliable detection of potential issues in customer environments.
  • Drive technical initiatives to simplify, consolidate, and modernize existing systems, improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
  • Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and data scientists to define the long-term technical strategy for anomaly detection and its integration with alerting capabilities.
  • Opportunities to develop expertise in platform architecture, technical strategy, and cross-functional engineering leadership.

Requirements

  • You have a strong understanding of streaming and batch processing architectures, including the challenges of processing large volumes of data with low latency.
  • You have experience leading complex architectural initiatives, making technical tradeoffs, and improving the reliability and maintainability of production systems.

Nice to have

  • experience with technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, or Python is a plus.
  • You bring a product-oriented mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes

Compensation

  • $244,000 - $305,000 USD

Benefits

  • Exposure to complex engineering challenges involving large-scale distributed systems, real-time data processing, and machine learning.
  • A collaborative engineering environment that encourages knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and professional development.
  • Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation.
  • You are comfortable working across technologies and learning new systems
  • You bring a product-oriented mindset and can connect technical decisions to customer outcomes; familiarity with machine learning systems or deploying models in production is a plus, but not required.

Company info

  • Datadog is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our anomaly detection platform.
  • Our team builds and operates high-scale distributed systems that process streaming and batch data, working alongside machine learning systems to automatically identify potential issues in our customers' environments.
  • As we expand these capabilities across Datadog's products, you'll play a key role in defining the technical direction, evolving our architecture, and building systems that surface meaningful insights to customers without requiring manual configuration.
  • This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at scale while influencing the direction of a platform that powers critical customer experiences.
  • At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.
  • We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
  • Shape how anomaly detection capabilities are delivered across Datadog products, helping customers identify meaningful issues without requiring manual configuration.
  • Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale.
  • It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
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