The Fabric Remote Procedure Call (RPC) team at Datadog provides safe, reliable and scalable internal service-to-service communication for Datadog’s engineering teams. In this role, you’ll develop and maintain data plane components and network control plane integrations for east-west internal service communication for the services that power Datadog’s products. 

 

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

 

What You’ll Do:

• Work with internal engineers and open source maintainers to build features and optimizations that reduce overhead of doing high-throughput network communications at scale
• Provide both out-of-the-box best practices experience for users as well as deep dives into Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium, gRPC, and related systems
  
  

Who You Are: 

• Someone  who can operate independently, methodically experiment, rapidly iterate, and has no fear of failure
• Experienced in  Golang, gRPC, xDS, Envoy, Cilium, eBPF, Kubernetes, Linux and data center networking concepts (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, routing, NAT)
• Bonus:  Prior experience with kubernetes controllers, gRPC, Envoy or other load balancers

 

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:

• 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

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