Software Engineer - Early Career | Datadog Careers

Datadog

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY
Posted: 18 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Software Engineer - Early Career | Datadog Careers

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Join our early-career engineering team at Datadog to tackle large-scale data challenges by collecting, aggregating, visualizing, and analyzing high-volume metrics, logs, and application data. As a key contributor, you will work on critical services, deploy new features with progressive rollouts, investigate production issues, optimize services for scalability, and collaborate closely with your team to plan impactful projects. Ideal candidates are pursuing or have completed degrees in Computer Science or related fields, possess coding experience in languages like Python, Go, or JavaScript, value simplicity and performance, and are eager to leverage AI tools to enhance their problem-solving skills. You will be part of a fast-paced environment that values employee growth and collaboration, working on multi-cloud systems handling over a hundred trillion events daily for thousands of customers.

Skills

Python JavaScript Go Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform Linux Git RESTful APIs JSON Scalability Performance Optimization Feature Flags

What you'll do

Solve scaling issues in critical services to improve system performance.
Deploy new features to production and manage rollout with feature flags.
Investigate and resolve production issues for services your team oversees.
Optimize services to handle increased traffic at scale efficiently.
Collaborate with team to prioritize and plan future project initiatives.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
Experience coding in one or more programming languages.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with complex systems.
Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to tackle difficult technical challenges.
Interest in leveraging AI tools for development and problem-solving.
Self-motivated individual who can collaborate well with other engineers.