Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability. </span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Write in Go, Java, Rust or C++, amongst other languages</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++) </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can get down to the low-level when needed</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You care about simple designs and performance</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span data-sheets-root="1">You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eage