Staff Software Engineer - KV Platform

The Opportunity

At Datadog, our KV Platform builds foundational, managed distributed key-value datastores powering core products, new features and critical internal platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Scale and build the next phase of our rapidly growing datastores.
• Drive technical direction for systems processing tens of millions of RPS.
• Collaborate with internal users to build features for key-value access.
• Design machine learning enabled migration solutions for optimal storage.

Who You Are

• You ship fast and communicate effectively.
• You are passionate about data storage and high-scale data modeling.
• You quickly prototype solutions and balance speed with reliability.
• You have experience building distributed systems at scale.

Benefits and Growth

Competitive global benefits including stock equity (RSUs), healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health, 401(k) match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and employee stock purchase plan.

About Datadog

Datadog is a global SaaS business with strong growth and profitability focused on solving complexity in the cloud age. Join a people-first community that values diversity, continuous growth and professional development.

Key skills/competency

• distributed systems
• datastores
• key-value
• scalability
• API design
• machine learning
• data modeling
• prototype
• reliability
• performance