Software Engineer

Datadog is the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring. It is used by IT, operations, and development teams who build and operate applications that run on dynamic or high-scale infrastructure. Because Datadog collects metrics and events from 100+ different technologies and services out of the box, including other monitoring tools, you can monitor your entire stack in one place, without any gaps.

* Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service * Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags * Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns * Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic * With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

**Requirements** * You have significant experience in one or more languages * You value code simplicity and performance * You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale * You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience * You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers **Bonus points** * You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka * You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before * You have a strong background in statistics * You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python