Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform
Datadog
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This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$187,825 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $169k for comparable roles.
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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.
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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The Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Platform Client joins the Streaming Platform Client team to develop core infrastructure for mission-critical data streams. You will architect and implement resilient interactions between client libraries and the control plane while optimizing a high-throughput, low-level streaming library. Day-to-day responsibilities include building intuitive APIs, providing technical documentation, and solving complex distributed systems challenges regarding balancing, scaling, and static stability. The role requires proficiency in low-level languages, specifically Rust, along with experience in Java, Go, and Python language bindings and FFI. You will work on data paths handling hundreds of millions of messages per second, ensuring performance and reliability for internal users. The work involves managing the bridge between the client fleet and the platform's control plane within a distributed environment.
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