Join Datadog as a Senior Software Engineer to build a cutting-edge continuous profiling product in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day 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
- Be responsible for code from development to production
- Work with stakeholders on profiling data consumption
Must have
- Experience with Java and/or Go
- Distributed systems engineer experience
- Excellent communication skills
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of statistical methods
- Experience collaborating with distributed teams
AI in the day-to-day
Experience working with AI coding agents to produce performant and maintainable results.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on designing and building core services for Datadog's continuous profiling product, ensuring it operates efficiently at scale. Proficiency in Java and/or Go is essential, along with experience in distributed systems and high-performance applications. This position is well-suited for engineers with a strong background in architectural decision-making and collaboration across teams. The team emphasizes a culture of creativity and collaboration, operating in a hybrid work environment.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — 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: Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Sophia Antipolis, France.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 80% of 120 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Go we track (median $169,000 across 43 companies). See Go salary trends
- Go appears in 32.1% of 492 comparable senior backend roles in United States; distributed systems appears in 6.1% of 492 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Continuous Profiler) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Datadog expects some on-site time in New York, New York, USA.
- What's the salary range?
- Datadog lists $192,000–$240,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Datadog is hiring for this position in New York, New York, USA.
- 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](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/continuous-profiling-fourth-pillar/) 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 (https://opensource.datadoghq.com/projects/go/) and tackle novel problems, from profiling asynchronous Python applications (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/async-python-profiler/) to helping customers solve memory leaks in their applications (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/memory-leak-workflow/).
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
#LI-Hybrid
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
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