Senior Software Engineer - Backend

DataDog
Paris, Madrid, Lyon, Sophia Antipolis, Tel Aviv, France, EMEA, Lisbon, Germany, Ireland
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: mastersSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication"]

Senior backend engineer focused on scalable services, optimizing performance, and designing architecture for high-scale systems. You’ll work on a hybrid Datadog engineering team, ship production features with feature flags, and collaborate to plan next projects. Strong experience across languages and a hands-on approach to AI-assisted coding are valued in a fast-growing environment.

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DataDog
DataDog
3 years ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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Job Summary

Senior backend engineer focused on scalable services, optimizing performance, and designing architecture for high-scale systems. You’ll work on a hybrid Datadog engineering team, ship production features with feature flags, and collaborate to plan next projects. Strong experience across languages and a hands-on approach to AI-assisted coding are valued in a fast-growing environment.
Location: Paris, Madrid, Lyon, Sophia Antipolis, Tel Aviv, France, EMEA, Lisbon, Germany, Ireland
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusEsppRemote WorkHybrid Work

Key Requirements

  • •Significant experience in one or more programming languages
  • •Ability to design architecture to solve problems at high scale
  • •BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
  • •Interest in working in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects engineers and customers
  • •Interest in leveraging AI tools to enhance coding and problem solving
Experience:Software EngineeringCloudObservabilityAI tools
Education:Master's
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunication
Languages:English

Company Brief

DataDog
Provides a cloud-native monitoring and observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, logs, and security signals to help engineering, operations, and security teams monitor and troubleshoot modern applications and infrastructure.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2010
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