Role Overview

Datadog's Senior Staff Software Engineer role in New York, New York represents the pinnacle of technical leadership at a company processing trillions of data points daily. As a technical owner, you'll architect the infrastructure powering the world's leading observability platform. This individual contributor role combines deep systems expertise with strategic leadership across teams, driving Datadog's next five years of hyper-growth.

Lead transformative projects like distributed data storage engines handling hundreds of millions of records per second, real-time observability infrastructure, and core service re-architecture for exponential scale. Join a pragmatic engineering culture that values honesty, simplicity, and solving hard problems correctly.

Key Responsibilities at Datadog

• Take technical ownership of critical systems spanning multiple engineering teams and product lines
• Drive end-to-end delivery of high-impact, high-scale projects from initial vision to production
• Build architectural consensus across stakeholders including Staff Engineers, Directors, and VPs
• Conduct deep performance analysis and optimization of large-scale distributed systems
• Shape Datadog's technical roadmap through cross-functional collaboration
• Provide clear technical direction through ambiguity, scaling challenges, and evolving requirements
• Design distributed query engines and real-time event streaming infrastructure at global scale
• Mentor the next generation of technical leaders while contributing to engineering culture evolution
• Launch infrastructure supporting new observability products and exponential growth

Qualifications & Requirements

To succeed as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Datadog, you'll need:

• 10+ years building distributed systems at massive scale (trillions of data points daily preferred)
• Proven experience as technical owner of multi-team infrastructure projects
• Deep expertise in observability platforms, metrics processing, distributed tracing, and logging systems
• Strong systems design background with real-time data processing and query optimization
• Demonstrated ability leading architectural alignment across complex engineering organizations
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar systems programming languages
• Track record of productionizing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems

Salary & Benefits

Senior Staff Software Engineers at Datadog in New York command premium compensation reflecting their strategic impact. Total compensation typically ranges from $250,000 - $400,000+ USD including base salary, significant equity, and performance bonuses.

Datadog's industry-leading benefits include:

• Competitive equity with substantial ownership potential
• Comprehensive family health insurance coverage
• Generous NYC commuter benefits
• Fitness and wellness reimbursements
• Professional development budget for conferences/certifications
• Unlimited PTO policy
• 401(k) matching
• Catered daily meals and office perks
• Parental leave programs

Why Join Datadog?

Datadog engineers build the best platform in the world for understanding and scaling modern cloud applications. Operating at extreme scale—trillions of data points daily—you'll solve problems others consider impossible. Our pragmatic engineering culture empowers senior staff to:

• Own strategic technical direction without management overhead
• Work on globally impactful infrastructure projects
• Collaborate with world-class engineers across all levels
• Shape industry standards in observability and cloud monitoring
• Grow into principal engineering and technical leadership roles

Recent projects include launching distributed storage engines processing millions of records/second and re-architecting core services for 10x growth. Your work will power tens of thousands of companies worldwide.

How to Apply

Ready to architect the future of observability at Datadog New York? Our hiring process includes:

• Resume screen by senior engineering recruiters
• Technical deep-dive with engineering managers
• Systems design interview focusing on distributed scale
• Cross-team collaboration assessment
• Final leadership conversations

Apply now to join Datadog's senior technical community and build infrastructure that scales with the cloud-native era. Spaces are limited for this strategic hire.