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Staff Engineer - Data Semantics at Datadog

Department: Dev Eng

Language
Setup
Hybrid
Location
Paris, Île-de-France · Madrid, Community of Madrid
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Datadog is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead the Data Semantics team and serve as a technical leader for semantic infrastructure, OpenTelemetry, telemetry standardization, schema evolution, and semantic interoperability across its observability platform. The role combines hands-on design and implementation with architectural ownership, cross-team standards work, mentorship, on-call incident leadership, and strategic platform development. Candidates should have significant experience with large-scale data infrastructure, distributed systems, or high-throughput data platforms, along with demonstrated staff-level technical leadership and cross-team influence.

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