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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Datadog
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Redis, AI-enabled Products, Software Construction, AI Coding Agents, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_cf9c0ac542f789d6c48d94da686a2e2a

## About the Role

* 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 validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output
 * 6+ years of experience, * 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

## Description

* 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