Software Engineer - Site Reliability

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 teams at Datadog are responsible for ensuring that our high-volume, low-latency environments continue to perform around the clock. These teams collaborate closely with our product engineers to ensure that Datadog can monitor millions of servers and containers, ensuring our customers always have dependable and actionable data at their fingertips. You'll be responsible for shaping the infrastructure of our data-intensive, real-time services as we continue to grow at petabyte scale. 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.

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 we need to support orders of magnitude more customers.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of programming experience and a willingness to dive into unfamiliar codebases.
• A track record as an engineer in the operations of a large site.
• Value correctness and efficiency; leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues.
• Handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems.
• Production experience with distributed compute/storage tools, e.g. zookeeper, cassandra, postgres, kafka, elasticsearch, redis.

Nice-to-haves

• Passion for technology and a desire 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
• 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
• Healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Paid time off
• Fitness reimbursements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan