Senior Software Engineer - Universal Services Monitoring (APM)

The Universal Service Monitoring team is building a zero-instrumentation observability solution that automatically discovers services on every host. We’re looking for a senior distributed systems engineer to design, implement, and run in production the foundational platforms powering this application. You’ll get to apply your strong systems-level thinking to create data pipelines that ingest, store, analyze, and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe.

You’ll join a high-impact team tackling ambitious technical challenges, like decoding traffic across multiple protocols and ensuring high-fidelity metrics in complex, real-world environments. You’ll be expected to lead design and implementation efforts, contribute to roadmap planning, and collaborate across teams to ensure our solution remains robust, scalable, and frictionless for our users.

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.

What You’ll Do

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
• Write in Go amongst other languages
• Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and other open-source components
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
  
  

Who You Are

• You have 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
• You have worked on large-scale, high-throughput backend systems
• You’re comfortable working across multi-tenant, cloud-native environments
• You care about simple designs and performance
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• Bonus: You’ve worked on observability, tracing, or protocol analysis system

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 distributed systems and observability and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture and access to Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.#LI-NC4