Staff Software Engineer

Overview In this Staff Engineer role, you will lead the design and delivery of critical, high-scale systems that power Datadog’s observability platform. You will act as a technical owner across architecture areas, working to ship production-ready solutions that scale to trillions of data points. You’ll dive into performance tuning and invent scalable approaches while shaping cross-team standards. This is a chance to influence the next phase of growth by combining deep technical leadership with hands-on delivery and collaboration. Compensation / Benefitshealthcaredentalparental planningmental health benefits 401(k) plan and matchpaid time off Responsibilitiesown multiple pieces of critical architecture and ensure end-to-end delivery in productionlead design and delivery of systems with broad impact across the engineering organizationdrive performance improvements at scale and invent efficient approachescontribute to staff engineering community and elevate company-wide software and systems standards Key requirementsBS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience 10+ years of relevant engineering experience 4+ years of technical leadership experience (manager or technical leader)led design and delivery of industry-leading systems with deep technical scope or wide organizational impactstrong communication and collaborationleadership and mentorshipability to tackle architectural problems across teamssystem architecture designproduction-scale deliveryperformance optimization