Join Datadog as a Senior Software Engineer to build a cutting-edge continuous profiling product in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 7 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 7 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and build core services for the profiling product
- Participate in multi-disciplinary squads
- Iterate with customers on product experiences
- Own code from development to production
- Work with stakeholders on profiling data consumption
Must have
- Experience with Java and/or Go
- Distributed systems engineer with experience building high performance large scale systems
- Excellent communication skills (English)
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of statistical methods
- Experience collaborating with distributed teams
- Experience working with AI coding agents
AI in the day-to-day
Experience working with AI coding agents to produce performant and maintainable results.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on developing and enhancing the core services that support Datadog's continuous profiling product, ensuring it operates efficiently in production environments. Key skills include proficiency in Java and/or Go, along with experience in building high-performance distributed systems. This position is ideal for engineers with a strong background in large-scale systems and the ability to navigate complex architectural discussions. The team emphasizes collaboration and creativity, working closely with various stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page October 14, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Datadog: New York, New York, USA.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France.
- Where is the role based?
- Datadog is hiring for this position in Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, Java, distributed systems.
- 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 - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler) role at Datadog.
From the original posting
The Continuous Profiler team at Datadog is building a cutting-edge continuous profiling product that has low enough overhead to run continuously in production, unlocking insights into how customer applications perform under real workloads at scale. As AI reshapes software development and teams lose touch with how their code works and interacts with the hardware, this capability is becoming more essential than ever, for humans and AI alike. Today the information produced by our profilers is used for everything from automatic performance tuning to root cause analysis.
As a distributed systems engineer on the profiling team, you will be contributing to the systems that intake, process, index, store and make sense of the data collected. You will be working with some of the best runtime engineers, visualization experts, data scientists and designers in the industry on challenging and fun problems. Together, we contribute to runtime ecosystems such as Go and tackle novel problems, from profiling asynchronous Python applications to helping customers solve memory leaks in their applications
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:
- 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 all the way 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.
Who You Are:
- 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).
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
About Datadog:
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