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Staff Software Engineer at Datadog

Department: Dev Eng

Compensation

$244,000 – $305,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
New York, New York
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Datadog is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build and scale high-throughput systems for processing, routing, and storing high-volume observability data in customer-managed cloud infrastructure. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with architecture, cross-team delivery, product direction, debugging, deployment, and capacity planning. Candidates should have significant experience with software deployed in customer environments, distributed systems, systems-level programming, cloud platforms, containerization, and Kubernetes, along with a record of leading large engineering efforts. The position is hybrid and offers a yearly salary of $244,000–$305,000 USD plus equity and benefits.

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