Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

DataDog
Lisbon, Dublin, Grenoble, Madrid, Paris, France, Germany, Spain, Sophia Antipolis
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Backend","Distributed systems","Architecture","Mentoring","Leadership"]

Senior Software Engineer to advance REDAPL, Datadog’s Referential Data Platform, responsible for building a high-performance query engine and guiding architectural choices across data ingestion, processing, and distributed system pipelines. You will drive platform-scale initiatives, collaborate with product teams, and mentor engineers while balancing performance, cost efficiency, and reliability in a hybrid work environment in Lisbon and across teams.

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4 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer to advance REDAPL, Datadog’s Referential Data Platform, responsible for building a high-performance query engine and guiding architectural choices across data ingestion, processing, and distributed system pipelines. You will drive platform-scale initiatives, collaborate with product teams, and mentor engineers while balancing performance, cost efficiency, and reliability in a hybrid work environment in Lisbon and across teams.
Location: Lisbon, Dublin, Grenoble, Madrid, Paris, France, Germany, Spain, Sophia Antipolis
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and iterate on a high-performance query engine to support efficient relationship traversals for large workloads.
  • •Drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform’s value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams.
  • •Lead and mentor other engineers through architectural platform decisions and best practices.
  • •Identify system risks and trends in reliability, designing solutions to address them.
  • •Collaborate with internal product teams to understand requirements and plan for product growth as teams integrate with REDAPL.

Key Requirements

  • •You have a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
  • •You have worked extensively with multiple types of data stores.
  • •You have contributed to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years.
  • •You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns.
  • •You have significant back-end engineering experience and have built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale.
Experience:Distributed systemsData platformsInfrastructure
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:BackendDistributed systemsArchitectureMentoringLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Neo4jMemgraphJanusGraphArangoDBAmazon NeptunePuppyGraphApache IcebergTrinoCalciteSubstraitDataFusion

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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