Software Engineer - Site Reliability

$130,000 - $300,000/Yr

Datadog - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Site Reliability Engineer at Datadog is responsible for maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of high-volume, low-latency environments. This role involves close collaboration with product engineers to ensure that Datadog can effectively monitor millions of servers and containers, providing customers with dependable and actionable data. The engineer will shape the infrastructure of data-intensive, real-time services as the company scales to petabyte levels.

Responsibilities

• Keep our service reliable, available, and fast as a member of the operations team.
• Respond to, investigate, and fix service issues, whether they be deep in the OS kernel or in the application code.
• Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure needed to support orders of magnitude more customers.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of programming experience.
• Experience in the operations of a large site.
• Strong focus on correctness and efficiency in diagnosing production issues.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation.
• Production experience with distributed compute/storage tools such as zookeeper, cassandra, postgres, kafka, elasticsearch, redis.

Nice-to-haves

• Passion for technology and willingness to grow skills.

Benefits

• 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
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds
• Access to Inclusion Talks and internal panel discussions
• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan