About the Role
The Language Tools team enables Datadog developers to build, test, and package millions of lines of code across multiple languages in a backend monorepo. The team's success is measured by developer productivity and satisfaction. As a senior software engineer, you will own projects from start to finish, gaining a deep understanding of developer needs and influencing the team's roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Invent build, test and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable to use.
- Push performance and cost efficiency at scale, raising cache hit rates and cutting CI times and compute spend across millions of targets.
- Treat CI like SREs treat prod, making sure our pipelines are green and fast.
- Prepare, run, and finish complex migrations.
- Contribute back to the Bazel ecosystem, upstreaming fixes and shaping features we depend on.
Requirements
- An expert in Bazel and/or one of the languages listed (Go, Python, Java, Rust, TypeScript).
- A well-rounded engineer with a broad understanding of various software project types.
- Both careful and fearless, understanding the impact and risk of changes.
- User-focused, aiming to improve the usability of developed tools.
- Experience working with a large codebase is ideal.
Skills
- Bazel
- Go
- Python
- Java
- Rust
- TypeScript
- CI/CD
- Performance Optimization
- Scalability
- SRE principles
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $244,000—$305,000 USD
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs)
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development
- Product training
- Career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program
- Inclusive company culture
- Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
- Discounted employee stock purchase plan
About the Company
- 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
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