Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Datadog Inc — New York, NY

Employer: Datadog, Inc. Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Job Requisition: 21118.451.4 Job Location: New York, New York Job Type: Full Time Rate of Pay: $193,461.00 to $240,000.00 per year Duties: Architecting and leading the development of open-source database integrations for the Datadog Agent, ensuring scalability, reliability, and quality. Defining telemetry to collect from customer databases and identifying related insights. Building end-to-end testing and performance benchmarking pipelines for high-quality releases. Redesigning integrations to support bi-directional communication, enabling live query views and in-product SQL actions. Serving as technical owner of one or more systems, providing direction on architecture, scalability, and maintainability. Debugging and solving complex, cross-system issues in production environments. Delivering complete, maintainable solutions from prototype to production. Mentoring new engineers and acting as a go-to resource on the team for technical questions. Collaborating with managers to define and plan team and system-level OKRs and feature delivery. Driving and supporting agile processes such as sprint planning and standups. Coaching and delegating work effectively to elevate team productivity and foster growth. Leading by example in development best practices, system design, and documentation. Advocating for user experience improvements and influencing product direction through stakeholder collaboration. Participating in engineering culture activities, including brown bags, demos, mentoring, meetups, and conference talks. Proactively communicating across teams, surfacing issues, sharing updates, and seeking alignment. Continuously learning and exploring new technologies to improve team effectiveness. Designing modular, scalable systems with well-considered architecture that integrates with peer teams. Performing code reviews and shipping maintainable code with limited or no guidance. Understanding and optimizing the performance and cost profile of owned systems. Managing operational responsibility for owned systems, ensuring uptime and reliability. May telecommute. Less than 5% international travel required. Requirements: Must have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related STEM field and five years (60 months) of experience in the job offered or in a Senior Software Engineer-related occupation. Contact: Email resume to employment-positions@datadoghq.com and reference Job Code 21118.451.4. EOE: M/F/D/V.