Compensation Overview

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help us improve Datadog’s Driveline, an important component of the Event Platform. Driveline is an in-memory append-only database tailored for fast ingestion, analytical queries, and low in-memory foot-print.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical platforms at Datadog. This platform offers Live Search features to critical products like Logs Management and APM. We have challenges to continue scaling these components and add new features important for our customers. This is an opportunity to accelerate the growth of one of the most profitable parts of the business.

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. 

What You’ll Do:

• Design and drive high priority, high visibility projects that increase the platform’s resilience and scalability across multiple teams 
• Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems
• Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability, and design solutions to address them
• Provide input on prioritization of engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps
• Collaborate closely with partner platforms that integrate and depend on the event platform to provide critical capabilities to their customers

Who You Are:

• You have led cross-team initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for 2+ years.
• Deep experience in C++ language.
• Passionate about performance and efficiency optimization.  
• You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, reliability, and accuracy are first-order concerns
• You have a reliability-oriented mindset and care deeply about designing and building resilient architectures
• You have significant back end programming experienced and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at high scale

This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.

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