Senior Software Engineer - Live Debugging

The Dynamic Instrumentation / Live Debugging team is building an exciting, brand new product that helps developers quickly troubleshoot and diagnose bugs and performance issues in complex distributed systems - bringing code-level observability into the hands of every developer. We're investing heavily in experiences that allow developers to dynamically instrument their applications and perform live debugging, in production, with the smallest possible performance overhead and rock-solid reliability. Come and join a team that cares about building software the right way.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What you’ll do:

• Develop new significant features for our new Live Debugger product, progressively rolling it out with feature flags
• Write high-quality, maintainable code primarily in Kotlin and Go, with occasional use of Java
• Work with our security teams to ensure we are delivering a sensitive product with top-notch security.
• Collaborate with our AI Code Gen team and IDE Integration team to create meaningful new customer experiences
• Diagnose and address reliability concerns, solve scaling bottlenecks in our critical services, and implement systems to prevent outages.
• With your team, plan the most important projects to work on next

Who You Are:

• You have been building software for 5+ years and you know the systems you’ve worked on from top to bottom
• You have experience working with Backend, Distributed Systems, and Modern Software Architectures (microservices, cloud computing, etc.)
• You have a strong product mindset and enjoy collaborating with product managers to build user-focused solutions.
• You are a strong communicator who can work effectively in a distributed team
• You've written high-performance, concurrent applications and squeezed every bit of performance from your system. You've written clean, correct, well-tested, performant, idiomatic code
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• Bonus points: experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra

Bonus Points:

• You've worked on the runtime or the compiler for a popular programming language, or a developer tool such as an IDE or static code analysis.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply. 

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.