Senior Software Engineer, Bazel Tools

Datadog

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta, GABoston, MANew York, NYArizonaCaliforniaOregon
Salary: $244,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted: 90 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role $274k

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About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

Datadog currently has 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $192,000–$240,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Bazel Tools

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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Language Tools team, you will support developers in building, testing, and packaging millions of lines of code within a backend monorepo. You will own projects from start to finish, inventing build and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable. Your daily work involves pushing performance and cost efficiency by raising cache hit rates and cutting CI times across millions of targets. You will prepare and finish complex migrations while contributing upstream fixes to the Bazel ecosystem. The role requires expertise in Bazel and languages including Go, Python, Java, Rust, and TypeScript. You must understand various software project types to improve usability for hundreds of engineers while managing the risks associated with high-velocity changes in a large codebase.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Georgia?

Median $187100 from 37 postings across 17 companies.

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Skills

Bazel Go Python Java Rust TypeScript Monorepo Packaging Tools

What you'll do

Invent build, test, and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable for developers.
Improve performance and cost efficiency by increasing cache hit rates and cutting CI times.
Maintain CI pipelines to ensure they remain green and fast.
Prepare, execute, and complete complex migrations across the monorepo.
Contribute fixes and new features back to the upstream Bazel ecosystem.
Own projects from start to finish for both greenfield and brownfield initiatives.
Inform the team roadmap by identifying and addressing developer needs.

What we're looking for

Expert in Bazel and/or one of the languages: Go, Python, Java, Rust, or TypeScript.
Broad understanding of various types of software projects that are built, tested, and packaged.
Ability to invent build, test, and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable.
Ability to push performance and cost efficiency at scale for CI times and compute spend.
Ability to prepare, run, and finish complex migrations.
Ability to contribute back to the Bazel ecosystem by upstreaming fixes and shaping features.
Experience working with a large codebase (preferred).

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