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Staff Software Engineer - Database Monitoring

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The Staff Software Engineer will lead database monitoring projects, develop proactive analytics, and enhance product adoption while architecting scalable systems.
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The Database Monitoring team at Datadog is building an industry-revolutionizing product to automatically pinpoint our customers’ database problems and proactively improve query performance. Join a successful product team transforming the way our industry operates data stores. Some examples of projects you will execute on include:

  • Launch a greenfield product for database analytics powered by logs, traces, and metrics
  • Launch features to detect problems and take automated actions (e.g. terminate a query)
  • Enable fast growth with 1-click installation of the DBM Agent
  • Architect a distributed pipeline to monitor the health of millions of Datadog Agents on customer databases in the cloud and on-prem
  • Develop generative AI tooling to recommend query and data model rewrites
  • Design and build workflows to automatically create PRs for query performance improvements


What You’ll Do:

  • Design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects like the ones described above
  • Provide technical leadership to the Database Monitoring team and peer teams
  • Be a driving force in growing the product’s adoption and revenue by 10X
  • Define enduring architectures to support a rapidly growing team and user base

Who You Are:

  • You have significant back-end programming experience and have architected, built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale
  • You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly, understand their workflows, and build industry-leading experiences for them
  • You are well-versed in database ecosystems and have hands-on experience working with relational databases in production environments
  • You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns

If these sound exciting to you, let’s talk!

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. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role 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.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$234,000$300,000 USD

About Datadog: 

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. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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Top Skills

Back-End Programming
Distributed Systems
Relational Databases

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