Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Location: Bordeaux, France; Grenoble, France; Lyon, France; Madrid, Spain; Montpellier, France; Nantes, France; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France; Tel Aviv, Israel Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe. The platforms are optimized for durability, high availability, low latency, internet-scale footprint and operability. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

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

Who You Are:

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’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
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

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

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

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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About Datadog:

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