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Senior Software Engineer

Datadog· Engineering
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Boston, MA, New York, NY$192k - $240kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer based in Boston, MA or New York, NY. Join Datadog to solve scaling bottlenecks, deploy new features with feature flags, fix production issues, design scalable architectures, and help plan high-priority projects in a fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Solve a scaling bottleneck in a critical service
  • Deploy a new feature to production, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
  • Investigate and fix a production issue from a service your team owns
  • Design a way to scale up a service for more traffic
  • With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in one or more programming languages
  • Value code simplicity and performance
  • Ability to design architecture to solve problems at high scale
  • BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
  • Willingness to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects engineers and customers
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products
  • Ability to design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs
  • 6+ years of experience

Skills

Required:Programming languagesAI tooling in developmentArchitecture design

Benefits

  • Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities for internal mobility
  • Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Free global mental health benefit through Spring Health
  • Generous global benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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