Staff Software Engineer - Logs Observability Pipelines
DatadogNew York, New York, United States · Posted 5 months agoDescription
Role Summary:
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 and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. You will operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architecture, cross-team delivery, and product direction across a complex and evolving space. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and solve deeply technical challenges at scale.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
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
Who You Are:
- 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
- You are experienced with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes in production environments
- You have a track record of leading large, cross-functional engineering efforts and influencing technical direction across teams
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Employee-focused best in class onboarding
- Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
#LI-Hybrid
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog 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 other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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