Qualifications
What You’ll Do:Design, develop, and sustain core backend systems for Product Analytics, ensuring scalability, reliability, and optimal performance. Lead technical architecture decisions aligned with product objectives and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams. Partner with core platform teams to customize Datadog's storage and query solutions to fit our needs. Foster a strong team culture in line with our engineering standards and customer-centric focus. Engage in hands-on engineering tasks, including coding, code reviews, and design assessments. Who You Are:An experienced backend engineer with profound knowledge in designing and developing distributed systems. Capable of influencing technical direction without direct management authority, acting as a technical leader and mentor. Motivated by the prospect of working on a nascent project filled with challenges and rapid iteration cycles. You possess a proven track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and working closely with product partners. A strong technical acumen, particularly in Go, Java, or SQL, with a desire to remain a hands-on contributor. You are enthusiastic about utilizing AI tools to enhance your coding, problem-solving, and building capabilities—or eager to learn how.
About the job
Product Analytics is designed to empower developers, product managers, and designers to gain insights into user behavior, make data-driven product decisions, and assess the repercussions of technical challenges on their customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Analytics Backend team, you will be part of a dynamic, rapidly expanding product area. Your contributions will be vital in shaping our technical vision, guiding the product roadmap, and tackling intricate engineering challenges at scale.
Within Product Analytics, we aggregate and process data from various sources, including clickstreams, user profiles, and external systems. Your role will be pivotal in constructing a sturdy and adaptable system that can effectively ingest, manipulate, correlate, and store this data, enabling efficient queries by our end users.
At Datadog, we cherish our workplace culture—its ability to foster relationships, ignite creativity, and promote collaboration. We function as a hybrid workplace to offer our employees the flexibility needed to achieve a harmonious work-life balance.
About Datadog
Datadog is a leading monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, and business users. With a focus on cloud-scale applications, Datadog provides observability across the entire IT stack, enabling teams to understand their systems and improve performance.