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Staff Engineer - Log Management

Datadog
Boston, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2025

Log Management is Datadog’s cost-effective, scalable and centralized logging solution, providing powerful real-time analysis capabilities on one of the most critical pillars of observability. Log Management is a unique opportunity to contribute to high scale, high availability and high reliability systems that process, enrich, store and make available for advanced querying terabytes of logs in real-time.

Please make an application promptly if you are a good match for this role due to high levels of interest.

As a Staff Engineer, you will drive high value projects spanning multiple teams and services. You can expect to make key technical decisions relating to the building of our data ingestion, processing, and querying systems. We are looking for someone that will be the go-to person for resolving in-depth performance issues and scalability bottlenecks. This person will have had years of experience with large scale distributed systems and will work closely with product and engineering leadership to shape and enable new features across multiple teams.

What You'll Do :

  • Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams.
  • Provide technical leadership across several areas of the platform.
  • Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions that rely on distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems.
  • Collaborate closely with design partners, product managers and platform engineering teams to quickly iterate on proof of concept capabilities.
  • Design and build highly resilient architectures.
  • Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning as well as contribute to both the product and engineering roadmaps.

Who You Are :

  • You have led large cross-team initiatives.
  • You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience / operability are first-order concerns.
  • You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale.
  • You enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become more complete.
  • 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)
  • Giving programs
  • Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

    Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

    The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is : $234,000 — $300,000 USD.

    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.

    Equal Opportunity at Datadog :

    Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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    Salary : $234,000 - $300,000

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