Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure R&D | Datadog Careers

Datadog

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$130,000–$300,000 / yr
Posted
14 days ago

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Above market

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure R&D | Datadog Careers

As a senior engineer on the Environments Accelerator team within Cloud Foundation at Datadog, you will design and build systems to streamline infrastructure provisioning across datacenters, focusing on reducing operational overhead and complexity. Your day-to-day responsibilities include developing tooling for declarative environment bootstrapping, coordinating dependencies, and validating infrastructure, while collaborating with various engineering teams to create reusable platform primitives. You’ll work with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and CI/CD pipelines in multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP, contributing to experiments on ephemeral datacenter footprints for AI workloads. The ideal candidate has experience in Go or similar languages, expertise in container orchestration, and a track record of designing scalable automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and reliability across distributed systems.

What you'll do

  • Design systems to reduce operational overhead in provisioning new infrastructure environments.
  • Develop tooling for declarative environment bootstrap and dependency coordination.
  • Improve reliability of infrastructure provisioning workflows by reducing manual steps.
  • Work across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and more.
  • Help modernize legacy provisioning workflows into reusable platform primitives.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in designing and implementing scalable automation solutions across multi-cloud environments.
  • Proficiency in Golang or similar systems programming languages.
  • Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex infrastructure projects.
  • Strong experience with Linux, CI/CD systems, deployment automation, and debugging.
  • Comfortable debugging distributed systems from orchestration down to networking layers.
  • Pragmatic approach to balancing speed, reliability, maintainability, and operational complexity.

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