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Staff Engineer - Data Platform Experience

Datadog· Data Platform Experience
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Hybrid (Dublin, Ireland; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer on the Data Platform Experience team responsible for shaping how Datadog engineering teams build, operate, and evolve products on the Observability Data Platform. Leads design and delivery of shared platform capabilities, reduces developer friction, and enables faster delivery across multiple teams with hands-on coding and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic engineering initiatives that improve how product teams build, operate, and evolve services on the Observability Data Platform.
  • Design and build scalable platform capabilities for cost intelligence, including cloud cost allocation, trend analysis, and optimization recommendations.
  • Develop operational intelligence and self-service tooling that helps engineering teams understand platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational efficiency.
  • Drive reusable platform services and developer workflows that increase engineering autonomy while reducing operational complexity across multiple products.
  • Provide technical leadership across teams by influencing architecture, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards through hands-on technical contributions.
  • Participate in the team's on-call rotation and continuously improve platform reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

  • Experience designing and building large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms with deep expertise in distributed systems.
  • Strong software architecture and system design skills and experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Platform engineering mindset with experience building reusable capabilities to enable other engineering organizations to move faster.
  • Effective communicator who can influence technical direction without direct authority and collaborate across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience with backend technologies such as Java and Go, and distributed infrastructure including Kafka and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with observability platforms, internal developer platforms, operational tooling, developer productivity solutions, or AI-powered engineering workflows is beneficial but not required.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsSoftware architecture & system designBackend development (Java, Go)KafkaKubernetesPlatform engineering mindsetCommunication & influence
Nice to have:Observability tools / internal developer platforms

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
  • Employee-focused best in class onboarding
  • Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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