Senior Backend Software Engineer- Product Analytics

Details

• Design, build, and maintain core backend systems for Product Analytics, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance
• Drive technical architecture decisions in alignment with product goals and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams
• Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and query solutions to our needs
• Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
• Participate in hands-on engineering work including coding, code reviews, and design reviews
• A seasoned backend engineer with deep expertise in designing and building distributed systems
• Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct management authority, operating as a technical leader and mentor
• Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners
• Strong technician, particularly with Go, Java or SQL, who is interested in remaining a hands-on contributor
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
• You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
• Bonus: you’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
• 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