We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Datadog’s API Platform group. This team owns the infrastructure and tooling behind our public API surface, which spans more than 7,000 endpoints and supports a vast range of customers and integrations. As a Staff Engineer, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a broad set of projects across multiple teams that support API routing, reliability, web frameworks, and large-scale automation.
This is a high-impact, highly visible role. You will work with leaders and engineers across Datadog to drive major initiatives, influence system design, and ensure the performance and resilience of critical systems. You will collaborate with teams that build and evolve internal frameworks, traffic shaping and routing logic, reliability tooling, and developer enablement for API infrastructure.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
Lead technical direction across multiple teams spanning API routing, rate limiting, frameworks, reliability tooling, and infrastructure automation.
Design and evolve edge-layer systems that handle traffic before it reaches backend services, including routing, rate limiting, audit logging, WAF, and other protective layers with strong reliability requirements.
Contribute to the evolution of internal frameworks in Go and Python used by thousands of engineers, working closely with engineers across product teams
Lead efforts to make it easier and safer to provision services in new data centers by building automation tools and working across opinionated teams
Support reliability for over 7,000 public APIs, including ownership of our load testing infrastructure and Terraform provider
Help define and implement best practices for testing, observability, and resilience across the API stack
Mentor engineers and shape the long-term architecture and direction of the API Platform group
Collaborate on cross-company initiatives such as MCP servers, A2A protocol, and long-term reliability requirements and improvements.
Who You Are:
You have 10 or more years of engineering experience with a strong background in backend systems and platform infrastructure
You bring expertise in site reliability engineering, backend architecture, or frameworks development
You have strong software development experience and are comfortable working in a Go-heavy codebase
You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving work across multiple teams with differing priorities
You enjoy mentoring, guiding teams through complex infrastructure problems, and leading high-impact projects end to end
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.
Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .
Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn
Competitive global benefits
Continuous professional development
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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:
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