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About the role
About Datadog:
We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
You will
Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next
Who You Are:
You have significant experience in one or more languages
You value code simplicity and performance
You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
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 build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operati
You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs
6+ years of experience
Bonus points:
You've worked at high scale with systems like Redis, Cassandra, Kafka
You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before
You have a strong background in statistics
You have significant experience with Go, C, or Python
You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
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.
This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
Benefits and Growth:
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
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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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $192,000—$240,000 USD
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About Datadog:
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. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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