Our Event Platform ingests, transforms and stores events to provide more than 30 Datadog products data retrieved by a query API at a rate of ~15 Million messages/second. With a focus on a high-level of reliability, you will contribute to a platform using Java, Go and bits of Python and Rust. Engineers with a background or interest in the challenges of optimizing distributed systems for durability, high availability, low latency and scalability are encouraged to apply. Husky Blog Husky Deep Dive

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Event Platform Storage team. Our Event Platform ingests, transforms and stores events to provide more than 30 Datadog products data retrieved by a query API at a rate of ~15 Million messages/second. With a focus on a high-level of reliability, you will contribute to a platform using Java, Go and Rust. 

Engineers with a background or interest in the challenges of optimizing distributed systems for durability, high availability, low latency and scalability are encouraged to apply. 

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical platforms at Datadog. This platform provides a scalable, exactly-once, cost-effective, and reliable storage engine for timestamped payloads with a full-featured and fast query engine with multiple integration options.. We have challenges to continue scaling these components and add new features important for our customers. This is an opportunity to accelerate the growth of one of the most profitable parts of the business.

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:

• Build and operate distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines
• Do it in Go and Java, with bits of Python or other languages
• Use Kafka, Kubernetes, FoundationDB, and other open-source components
• Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
• Design and architecture the more effective data pipeline using modern architecture
• Write a significant amount of code, lead architectural decisions for new and existing services

Who You Are: 

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Sci/Eng, Math, Physics or equivalent STEM field 
• Experience with one or more programing languages (Go, Java, Rust, C++, Python) 
• Experience building storage engines, datastores and/or high scale Distributed Systems 
• Desire to work in a fast paced, high-growth tech first environment 

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:

• Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility 
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking 
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health 
• Generous global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.