The opportunity
Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines with log management software that customers deploy and manage in their own infrastructure. This role will focus on building…
What you'll do
Make customer-controlled deployments feel like a managed Datadog product: deployment, upgrades, configuration, observability, diagnostics, reliability, and secure operation across diverse customer cloud environments
Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and: transformation across distributed environments
Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and: stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects
Design and implement software that runs reliably that customers deploy and: operate within their own cloud infrastructure.
Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through: thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning
Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments
What they're looking for
- You have significant experience building software that is installed,: deployed, and operated in customer environments rather than only as a fully managed SaaS service.
- You have strong expertise in distributed systems, including scalability,: performance optimization, and high-throughput data processing
- You are proficient in systems-level programming (e.g., Go, Rust, or C++) and: understand how software runs across diverse environments (e.g., Linux systems)
- You have experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and are: comfortable troubleshooting infrastructure and networking issues
