Staff Software Engineer - Watchdog Anomaly Detection

Описание

This hybrid Staff Software Engineer role at Datadog focuses on building and evolving large-scale distributed systems for an anomaly detection platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems that power automated anomaly detection across Datadog's platform
• Design and improve high-throughput streaming and batch processing pipelines, enabling timely and reliable detection of potential issues in customer environments
• Drive technical initiatives to simplify, consolidate, and modernize existing systems, improving scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency
• Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, and data scientists to define the long-term technical strategy for anomaly detection and its integration with alerting capabilities
• Shape how anomaly detection capabilities are delivered across Datadog products, helping customers identify meaningful issues without requiring manual configuration
• Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, influencing architectural decisions and aligning solutions with broader product and platform goals

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, particularly high-throughput or data-intensive backend platforms
• Strong understanding of streaming and batch processing architectures, including the challenges of processing large volumes of data with low latency
• Experience leading complex architectural initiatives, making technical tradeoffs, and improving the reliability and maintainability of production systems
• Ability to drive technical strategy beyond your immediate team, collaborating with engineering leaders and product partners to translate customer needs into scalable platform solutions
• Comfortable working across technologies and learning new systems
• Product-oriented mindset and ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes

Nice to have

• Experience with technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, or Python
• Familiarity with machine learning systems or deploying models in production

We offer

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
• Competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation
• Wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan
• Reasonably estimated yearly salary: $244,000
• $305,000 USD