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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler)

Datadog· Engineering
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Hybrid (Madrid, Spain; Nantes, France; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France)full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the Distributed Systems/Continuous Profiler team building a low-overhead, production-ready continuous profiling product for Datadog.

Responsibilities

  • Help design, build and contribute to the core services making the profiling product possible, at a scale that is unusual even within Datadog.
  • Participate in multi-disciplinary squads, and iterate with customers, to bring ideas from early explorations to impactful product experiences.
  • You will be responsible for your code from development to production, and meet ambitious SLO and quality gates.
  • You will be working with many internal and external stakeholders, working on various ways to consume the profiling data, such as the UI, agentic tools, internal applications, integrations and partner products.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Java and/or Go essential.
  • Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems.
  • Excellent communication skills (English).
  • Ability to meaningfully review architectural proposals and guide technical trade-offs in a complex product space.
  • Experience working with AI coding agents to produce performant and maintainable results.
  • Experience collaborating with distributed teams.
  • Working knowledge of statistical methods, such as sampling strategies, bayesian optimization, sensor fusion etc (nice to have).

Skills

Required:JavaGoDistributed systemsCommunicationArchitectural review
Nice to have:AI tooling

Benefits

  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
  • Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
  • An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
  • Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
  • Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
  • Competitive global benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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