[Remote] Staff Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datadog is on a mission to build the best platform for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. The Staff Software Engineer will serve as a technical leader, responsible for architecting and delivering systems that support the company's growth and enhance its engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture in your area of the business
- Own delivery of the systems you architect from beginning-to-end, doing what it takes to get things shipped and at full scale in production
- Dive deep into performance of systems; inventing new approaches that bring efficiency at scale
Skills
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical leadership experience, either as a manager or technical leader
- You have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems, either in their unique depth of technical expertise needed and/or in their scope of impact across a company's engineering org
- You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
- Bonus: you're motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
Benefits
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
- Generous global benefits
- Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
- A 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- A discounted employee stock purchase plan
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