Senior Software Engineer - Backend

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br></span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who You Are: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have significant experience in one or more languages</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You value code simplicity and performance</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You want to work in a fast, high-gro