We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help us take REDAPL, our Referential Data Platform, to the next level.REDAPL is Datadog's main platform for tracking our customers' infrastructure resources and relationships. The platform enables products where customers can understand, keep track of, and gain insights into their infrastructure related to performance, cost, security, and more.Several Datadog products use REDAPL today (for example, Cloud Security Posture Management, Resource Catalog, Cloud Cost Management, and Service Catalog) and several more are in various stages of development. Ingest and query volumes are rapidly increasing across the platform.As a Staff Engineer, you will drive, lead and collaborate on projects both inside and outside the platform. You can expect to contribute to key technical decisions relating to our data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines.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:Contribute to design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teamsBe a technical anchor for the teamLead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisionsIdentify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address themProvide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmapsCollaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and how we plan for their product growth as they integrate and depend on REDAPLWho You Are:You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experienceYou have helped bootstrap a new team from scratchYou have worked extensively with multiple types of data stores. Experience working with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune or PuppyGraph are a bonus.You have contributed to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several yearsYou have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concernsYou have significant back-end engineering experience and have built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scaleYou enjoy mentoring and coaching other engineers to become even strongerDatadog 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:Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learnCompetitive global benefitsContinuous professional developmentBenefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
