Staff Software Engineer

Datadog

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $244,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted: 101 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $221k

This role $274k

$161k most similar roles pay here $320k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $192,132–$249,062 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $274k versus about $221k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 266 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $161,000–$205,000 across 138 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

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As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and individual contributor focused on building high-scale systems for the observability platform. You will take ownership of critical architecture, leading the end-to-end delivery of complex projects such as new data storage engines, synthetic monitoring tools, or performance-optimized services designed to handle massive scale. Your daily work involves diving deep into system performance and inventing innovative approaches to improve efficiency at scale. The role requires extensive experience in software engineering, technical leadership, and the ability to utilize AI coding tools within your workflow to refine outputs. You will solve complex problems related to data visualization, virtual runtime profiling, and planet-scale streaming while establishing company-wide standards for software and systems engineering across the organization's infrastructure.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.

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Skills

Data Visualization Virtual Runtime Profiling Streaming AI Coding Tools

What you'll do

Act as the technical owner for multiple pieces of critical architecture within your business area.
Manage the end-to-end delivery of systems from initial design to full production scale.
Design and build high-scale infrastructure such as data storage engines or new product features.
Investigate system performance deeply to invent new approaches that improve efficiency at scale.
Solve complex architectural problems that span across the entire organization.
Establish and improve company-wide standards for software and systems engineering.
Integrate AI coding tools into daily workflows to refine and validate technical outputs.

What we're looking for

You must have a BS, MS, or PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
You must have 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
You must have 4+ years of technical leadership experience as either a manager or technical leader.
You must have led the design and delivery of industry-leading systems with significant depth or scope.
You must demonstrate an ability to use AI coding tools in daily workflows and refine AI-generated output.

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