Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Company size
- Enterprise
Open to FR, DE, IT, ES, CH, GB only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Senior backend/platform engineer for Datadog’s REDAPL graph/data platform. Needs extensive experience with data stores, distributed systems, and high-scale infrastructure/platform work. Hiring remotely in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Optional skills
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take REDAPL, our Referential Data Platform, to the next level. REDAPL is Datadog's main platform for tracking our customers' infrastructure resources and relationships. The platform enables products where customers can understand, keep track of, and gain insights into their infrastructure related to performance, cost, security, and more.
Many Datadog products use REDAPL today such Cloud Security Posture Management, Resource Catalog, Cloud Cost Management, and Service Catalog and others - REDAPL ingests more than 4.5mil updates/second.
As a Senior Engineer, you will drive, lead and collaborate on projects both inside and outside the platform. You can expect to contribute to key technical decisions relating to our data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
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.
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
About Datadog:
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What you'll do
- Build a query engine supporting efficient relationship traversals for demanding workloads
- Contribute to design and drive high-priority projects to improve platform value, resilience, and scalability
- Lead and guide engineers through architectural platform decisions
- Identify system risks and reliability trends and design solutions to address them
- Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in planning and roadmaps
- Collaborate with internal product teams to understand requirements and plan for product growth
What they require
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, related scientific field, or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience with multiple types of data stores
- Several years contributing to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment
- Experience leading impactful technical initiatives where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience or operability are first-order concerns
- Significant backend engineering experience
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at high scale
Benefits
- Build tools for software engineers
- Influence product direction and business impact
- Work with skilled and knowledgeable teammates
- Competitive global benefits
- Continuous professional development
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.