Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. The Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems will design, implement, and run foundational platforms that power the company's applications, handling billions of events per second in real-time. This role involves building fault-tolerant solutions and working with various programming languages and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments
- Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages
- Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components
- Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
Skills
- 6+ years of experience
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
- You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)
- You can get down to the low-level when needed
- You care about simple designs and performance
- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
- 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
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive 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
Company Overview
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.datadoghq.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Datadog has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2026, 123 in 2025, 66 in 2024, 45 in 2023, 53 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 29 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.