Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability

The Site Reliability teams at Datadog are responsible for ensuring that our high-volume, low-latency environments continue to perform around the clock. These teams collaborate closely with our product engineers to ensure that Datadog can monitor millions of servers and containers, ensuring our customers always have dependable and actionable data at their fingertips. You'll be responsible for shaping the infrastructure of our data-intensive, real-time services as we continue to grow at petabyte scale. <br>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. <br><strong>What You'll Do:</strong><br><ul> <li> Keep our services reliable, available, fast and cost-efficient. </li> <li> Respond to, investigate and fix service issues, whether they are deep in the OS kernel or in the application code. </li> <li> Build tools and production frameworks to make our engineering team's lives easier. </li> <li> Design, build and maintain the infrastructure we need to support orders of magnitude more customers.</li> </ul> <br><strong>Who You Are:</strong><br><ul> <li> 5+ years of experience in software engineering </li> <li> You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues </li> <li> You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems </li> <li> You have production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g. Kubernetes, Cassandra, Postgres, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis </li> </ul> <br>Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. <br><strong>Benefits and Growth:</strong><br><ul> <li> New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) </li> <li> Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing </li> <li> Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking </li> <li> An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups) </li> <li> Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions </li> <li> Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+ </li> <li> Competitive global benefits </li> </ul> <br>Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. <br>#LI-MF2<br><strong>About Datadog: </strong><br>Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. 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. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. 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. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center. <br><strong>Equal Opportunity at Datadog:</strong><br>Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.<br><strong>Your Privacy:</strong><br>Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice .