Build and manage internal platforms and tools to ensure Datadog's reliability, performance, and security.
Posted by employer 4 years ago
First seen on Joblaze 20 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer with Systems Depth at Datadog focuses on developing and maintaining internal platforms and tools that support the company's software products. Candidates should have extensive experience with cloud infrastructure, reliability efforts, and various systems and tooling, including container orchestration and configuration management. This position is ideal for individuals with a strong background in software engineering and systems management, particularly those who thrive in complex environments. Datadog's emphasis on leveraging AI tools for coding and problem-solving adds an innovative aspect to the team's workflow.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 25, 2026. Last confirmed on Datadog's careers page September 25, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 96% of 50 comparable mid backend roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $125,000 across 27 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 33.2% of 241 comparable mid backend roles in United States; haproxy appears in 0.4% of 241 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Datadog lists $192,000–$240,000 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Bazel, CDN, Cassandra, Chef, Configuration Management, Consul.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Datadog targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer with Systems Depth role at Datadog.
From the original posting
Datadog's Software Engineers with Systems depth leverage their experience with systems and tooling to build software that ensures Datadog remains reliable, performant, and secure.
For this track, their Software Engineering experience may resemble the Distributed Systems track, but is typically applied in combination with their systems experience to build and run internal platforms and tools that our products are built on. These people typically have deep experience building and managing large cloud infrastructure deployments, or leading reliability efforts for orgs similar to ours, or building release machinery to allow hundreds or thousands of devs to do their jobs without stepping on each others' toes.
The systems and tooling where they may have experience depth may include (but not limited to): bazel, build tooling, cassandra, CDN, chef, configuration management, container orchestration, consul, docker, elasticsearch envoy, haproxy, kafka, kubernetes, load balancing, network architecture, postgres, redis, release management, RPC frameworks, service discovery, spinnaker, terraform, zookeeper.
Bonus:
- You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build – or eager to learn how
This job is available in various departments within our company; to conform to US export control regulations, some of these roles may require candidates to be eligible for any required authorizations from the US government.
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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.
About Datadog:
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