Product Analytics aims to help developers, product managers and designers understand their users, take data-oriented product decisions and evaluate the impact of technical issues on their customer base. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Analytics Backend team, you'll join a new, fast-growing product area. You will help define our technical vision, influence the product roadmap, and solve complex engineering challenges at scale.
In Product Analytics, we consume and process data from multiple sources: clickstreams, user information, and data from third-party systems. Your work will be central to building a robust and flexible system that can ingest, manipulate, correlate and store all this data to have it efficiently queried by our end users.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

Design, build, and maintain core backend systems for Product Analytics, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance
Drive technical architecture decisions in alignment with product goals and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams
Work with our core platform teams to tailor Datadog's storage and query solutions to our needs
Create a strong team culture aligned with our engineering standards and our customer focus
Participate in hands-on engineering work including coding, code reviews, and design reviews

Who You Are:

A seasoned backend engineer with deep expertise in designing and building distributed systems
Comfortable influencing technical direction without direct management authority, operating as a technical leader and mentor
Interested in working on an early stage project with many challenges to solve and a fast iteration cycle
You have a track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule and collaborating closely with product partners
Strong technician, particularly with Go, Java or SQL, who is interested in remaining a hands-on contributor
You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how

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:

New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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