Software Engineer - Backend & Scalability

• Work with talented engineers who will support your growth in distributed systems and large-scale software design
• Participate in impactful projects from day one with the autonomy to make technical decisions
• Grow your career with access to mentorship programs, internal mobility, and continuous development resources

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.

• You have 5+ years of experience building backend software in production, using languages like Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust
• You’ve contributed to the design and development of backend services or APIs, and enjoy solving real-world engineering problems
• You’ve had some exposure to distributed systems (e.g., fault tolerance, messaging, scalability) and are excited to deepen your expertise
• You write clean, maintainable code and approach system design with thoughtfulness and curiosity
• You’re collaborative and eager to grow your impact by working on high-scale, high-reliability systems
• 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