Posted by employer 4 years ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Datadog will tackle critical scaling challenges, deploy new features, and resolve production issues within their team’s services. Proficiency in one or more programming languages, along with a focus on code simplicity and performance, is essential for success. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who thrive in fast-paced startup environments and are eager to leverage AI tools to enhance their coding practices. Datadog fosters a collaborative culture that values creativity and inclusivity, making it a supportive place for professional growth.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 5 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page October 8, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer - Backend role remote?
- It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in Bordeaux, France; Paris, France.
- Where is the role based?
- Datadog is hiring for this position in Bordeaux, France; Paris, France.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Software Engineering.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Datadog targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Backend role at Datadog.
From the original posting
We are building the best platform in the world for engineers to understand, scale, and protect their systems, applications, and teams. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—providing always-on alerting, metrics visualization, logs, application tracing, and security insights for tens of thousands of companies. Our engineering culture values pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do:
- 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
Who You Are:
- You have significant experience in one or more languages
- You value code simplicity and performance
- You can design architecture to solve problems at high scale
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
- You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
- You have demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and build, validate, and refine AI-generated output in products
- You can design AI Backend systems, with awareness of quality, cost, and latency tradeoffs
- Bonus: You’re motivated to push the boundaries of how AI can improve software engineering best practices and contribute to building AI-enabled products
Benefits and Growth:
- 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
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