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💼 About This Role

You'll build fault-tolerant and horizontally scalable distributed systems running in multi-tenant environments at Datadog. Your data pipelines will ingest billions of events per second in real-time. You'll own meaningful parts of our service and grow with the company.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions in multi-tenant environments.
• Write in Go, Java, Rust, or C++ and use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch.
• Own meaningful parts of our service and have an impact.
• Design and run foundational platforms powering applications.

📋 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience.
• Significant backend programming experience in Go, Java, Rust, or C++.
• Experience with high durability or low latency problems.
• Ability to use AI coding tools and validate AI-generated output.

✨ Nice to Have

• Motivated to push boundaries of AI in software engineering.
• Experience building AI-enabled products.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 📈 New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• 📚 Continuous professional development and career pathing.
• 👥 Mentor and buddy program for in-house networking.
• 🧠 Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
• 💼 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Call· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min