Role Overview

Datadog is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Boston, Massachusetts to lead the development of our world-class observability platform. As a technical leader at Datadog, you'll architect systems that process trillions of data points daily, powering monitoring, alerting, metrics visualization, logs, and application tracing for tens of thousands of global companies. This individual contributor role combines deep technical expertise with organizational leadership, driving innovations in data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming.

Staff Engineers at Datadog own projects like designing new data storage engines handling hundreds of millions of records per second, leading new product development like synthetics monitoring or profiling, or rebuilding services for 100x scale growth. Join our engineering culture that values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve the hardest problems in cloud observability.

Key Responsibilities at Datadog

• Be the technical owner of multiple pieces of critical architecture across the observability business
• Own end-to-end delivery of systems you architect, ensuring production readiness at full scale
• Dive deep into system performance, inventing efficiency breakthroughs for massive scale
• Lead design and implementation of high-throughput data storage engines (100M+ records/second)
• Architect and build new products like synthetics monitoring and runtime profiling solutions
• Drive cross-organizational technical leadership, charting architecture roadmaps
• Participate in Datadog's staff engineering community to elevate company standards
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, problem-solving, and system building
• Mentor teams and share expertise from industry trends and Datadog's battle-tested systems

Qualifications & Requirements

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

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or scientific field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience building distributed, high-scale systems
• 4+ years technical leadership as manager or principal-level individual contributor
• Proven success leading design and delivery of industry-leading systems with org-wide impact
• Deep expertise in observability, streaming, data platforms, or similar high-scale domains
• Experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, AWS, GCP) and modern languages (Go, Python, Java)

Bonus: Excitement about using AI tools to enhance development workflows and problem-solving.

Salary & Benefits

Datadog offers $234,000 - $300,000 USD base salary plus equity for this Staff Software Engineer role in Boston, with total compensation varying based on experience. Our comprehensive benefits include:

• Family health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO and flexible vacation
• Fitness reimbursements and wellness programs
• Parental leave and family planning benefits
• Mental health support and EAP
• Professional development stipend
• Commuter benefits and ESPP

Why Join Datadog?

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) delivers the leading cloud observability platform, combining growth and profitability while serving organizations across all industries. Built by engineers for engineers, we break down silos in the cloud age through infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, and security observability.

Work on systems processing trillions of data points daily with a team that champions professional development, diversity, and inclusion. Boston engineers enjoy our collaborative culture, cutting-edge challenges, and direct impact on global cloud transformation.

How to Apply

Ready to architect the future of observability at Datadog? Apply now for the Staff Software Engineer position in Boston, Massachusetts. Submit your resume and join thousands of engineers building the best platform for understanding and scaling cloud systems. Don't miss this chance to lead at planet scale!