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Staff Software Engineer in USA

Datadog
Full time
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USA
10/21/2026
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New York, NY

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems for automated anomaly detection.
Design and improve high-throughput streaming and batch processing pipelines.
Drive initiatives to simplify, consolidate, and modernize systems while improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and data scientists on technical strategy and alerting integration.
Shape delivery of anomaly detection capabilities across Datadog products.
Provide technical leadership across engineering teams and influence architectural decisions.

Requirements

Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, particularly high-throughput or data-intensive backend platforms.
Strong understanding of streaming and batch processing architectures and low-latency, high-volume data processing challenges.
Experience leading complex architectural initiatives, making technical tradeoffs, and improving production-system reliability and maintainability.
Ability to drive technical strategy beyond the immediate team and translate customer needs into scalable platform solutions.
Comfort working across technologies and learning new systems.
Experience with Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, or Python is preferred.
A product-oriented mindset and familiarity with machine learning systems or deploying models in production are preferred.

Benefits

Hybrid workplace with office collaboration and work-life harmony.
Opportunities for technical leadership, architecture ownership, professional development, and cross-functional collaboration.
Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and discounted employee stock purchase plan.
Benefits may vary based on country of employment and the nature of employment.

Salary: $244k - $305k/yr

Datadog

Datadog is a cloud monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations gain real-time visibility into the performance, reliability, and security of their technology environments. Through its SaaS-based analytics platform, Datadog enables businesses to monitor cloud-scale applications, ...

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