Staff Software Engineer – Compute Cloud, Datadog

Staff Software Engineer - Compute Cloud, Datadog

Company Datadog
Job title Staff Software Engineer – Compute Cloud
Job location United States of America – Remote
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform’s value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams.
  • Provide technical leadership across one or several areas of the platform.
  • Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions.
  • Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them.
  • Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps.
  • Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and how we can help them continue to rapidly ship new products and features while maintaining a high bar for security, reliability, and scalability.

Requirements & Skills:

  • You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years.
  • You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns.
  • You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale.
  • You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become even stronger.
  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, or related scientific field or equivalent experience

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