Senior Software Engineer - Distributed SystemsActive$46K–$183K

The opportunity

Distributed Systems engineers at Datadog design, implement and run in production the foundational platforms powering our applications. Your data pipelines will ingest, store, analyze and query in real-time billions of events per second from companies all over the globe.

What you'll do

  • Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments

  • Write in Go, Java Rust or C++, amongst other languages

  • Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components

  • Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company

  • + years of experience

  • You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience

What they're looking for

  • You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
  • You have been exposed to working on problems (high durability / low latency /…)
  • You can get down to the low-level when needed
  • You care about simple designs and performance