Datadog

Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client

New York, New York, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$192k-$240kDetected 22 days ago

JavaGoDistributed SystemsDatadogData EngineeringAccessibilityCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Our library runs on critical data paths that handle hundreds of millions of messages per second making performance, observability, and reliability paramount.

Work within a distributed, high-impact team spanning Europe and the US, building critical technologies that power data pipelines for dozens of internal teams and hundreds of services.
Architect and implement resilient interactions between our client libraries and the control plane.
Optimize our high-throughput, low-level streaming library to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency.
Champion the developer experience by providing exceptional support, technical documentation, and proactive troubleshooting for our wide user base.
Lead high-stakes technical projects, maintaining end-to-end accountability for their delivery and quality.
Collaborate with partner teams on delivering projects wider than your team's scope.
We own the Rust client library (producers and consumers) with language bindings for Java, Go, and Python.
We focus on building intuitive APIs and abstractions that make a powerful distributed system easy to adopt and operate for the hundreds of internal users of our library.
You will collaborate directly with our users, tackle performance-critical code, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across the control plane, client libraries, and data plane.

You are a finisher who takes the projects through the finish line and does not stop at shipping code.
You have strong proficiency in low-level languages (ideally Rust).
You have a passion for deep-dive investigations, particularly in performance optimization and debugging complex systems.
You are curious about AI and actively leverage it to enhance your development workflow.
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)

Data streams are mission-critical at Datadog, powering near real-time communication across the vast majority of our services.
Our Streaming Platform group builds the core infrastructure and abstractions that ensure Datadog remains a trusted partner for engineers worldwide.
We also develop and operate the service that bridges the clients fleet with the platform's control plane, handling complex balancing, scaling, and static stability challenges.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve these features.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table.
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.
If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers' entire technology stacks.
Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another.

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