Staff Software Engineer, Watchdog Anomaly Detection

Datadog

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYBoston, MADenver, CONew Jersey, NJ
Salary
$244,000–$305,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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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 · Staff Software Engineer, Watchdog Anomaly Detection

Staff Software Engineer - Watchdog Anomaly Detection joins the team responsible for building and operating high-scale distributed systems that process streaming and batch data. In this role, you will lead the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems to power automated anomaly detection across the platform. You will design high-throughput processing pipelines, drive technical initiatives to modernize existing systems, and partner with data scientists to define long-term technical strategies. The work involves solving complex engineering challenges to surface meaningful insights without manual configuration. Key technologies and skills include experience with Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, and Python. You will also navigate the technical challenges of processing large volumes of data with low latency while integrating anomaly detection with alerting capabilities.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed systems for automated anomaly detection.
  • Design and improve high-throughput streaming and batch processing pipelines for reliable issue detection.
  • Drive initiatives to simplify, consolidate, and modernize existing systems for better scalability and efficiency.
  • Define the long-term technical strategy for anomaly detection and its integration with alerting capabilities.
  • Shape how anomaly detection capabilities are delivered across products to eliminate manual customer configuration.
  • Provide technical leadership across engineering teams to align architectural decisions with platform goals.

What we're looking for

  • Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems for high-throughput or data-intensive backend platforms.
  • Strong understanding of streaming and batch processing architectures for processing large volumes of data with low latency.
  • Experience leading complex architectural initiatives and making technical tradeoffs to improve production system reliability and maintainability.
  • Ability to drive technical strategy across teams and collaborate with leaders to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.
  • Experience with technologies such as Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, Go, or Python (preferred).
  • Product-oriented mindset with the ability to connect technical decisions to customer outcomes.
  • Familiarity with machine learning systems or deploying models in production (preferred).

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