Senior Software Engineer - XPQ

The Cross-Product Queries (XPQ) team designs, builds and operates query languages, systems and services that join, aggregate, and transform the observability data that reside in Datadog’s petabyte-scale storage systems - such as metrics, logs and application traces. The platform serves live traffic of thousands of queries per second, powering key Datadog product features.

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.

What You’ll Do:

• Building and operating query execution engines, working on query planning, cost-based optimization, and writing operators
• Dive deep into the query language design and syntax to build new language features to meet user needs.
• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
• Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
• Interest or experience with query processing and/or database internals
• You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)
• You can get down to the low-level when needed
• You care about simple designs and performance
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

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.

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, ability to join our 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+
• Competitive global benefits

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