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
You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
You have significant backend programming experience in one or more languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++)
What they're looking for
- 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
- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
