Software Engineer - Engineering Experience (Backend)

About Datadog:

At Datadog, we’re on a mission to build the best monitoring platform in the world. 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 team:

As an engineer on our Engineering Experience team, you’ll build systems that enable developers to build, ship, and test their code safer and faster. We build the systems that Datadog engineers use to push code to production every day. This team has a significant impact on both the engineering velocity of our engineers and our customers. We’re looking for developers who are passionate about constantly finding new ways to improve the productivity of our engineering teams.

The opportunity:

As a backend engineer on our Engineering Experience team, you will build and operationalize tools that impact the entire software lifecycle, such as our workflow automation engine and software delivery APIs. You will work closely with both product and infrastructure teams to meet the evolving needs of our engineers.

Requirements:

• You have built distributed systems
• You have built products for other engineers
• You are comfortable diving into new code bases when needed
• You know when you can move fast, and which changes need extra care

Bonus points:

• You have experience building software delivery automation tools
• You have worked in Golang
• You have experience with graph databases
• You have familiarity with bazel

Equal opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.