Senior Software Engineer

We're on a mission to build the best platform in the world for engineers to understand and scale their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always‑on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way. The Cloud Security team was founded with one mission: Help our customers secure their data, infrastructure and applications. Cloud Security teams help DevOps and security‑teams work together, with 4 main products : Workload Security, Posture Management, Application Security Monitoring and Cloud SIEM. To become a leader in this domain, we need to consistently innovate, deliver new features to existing products and launch new products that will fulfill our customer needs. Join the team in this exciting journey At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work‑life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Build and operate distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines Do it in Java and Go, with bits of Python or other languages Use Kafka, Elasticsearch and other open-source components Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages You can get down to the low-level when needed You care about code simplicity and performance You are accountable team player that likes to get things done You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how 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: 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+ Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog. #LI-NC4 Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people‑first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram , LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center. Equal Opportunity at Datadog: Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference. Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form . This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications. #J-18808-Ljbffr